The Recent Discovery of 5,000-Year-Old Wine in an Ancient Egyptian Tomb Sparks a Remarkable Theory Archaeologists working at a burial site in Abydos, central Egypt, have stumbled upon a surprising possibility. They speculate that this tomb might be the …

A vanished village, buried for centuries under the sands of time, is beginning to emerge in the cave-dotted lowlands southwest of Jerusalem. In typical old-new Israeli fashion, the work of revealing Beit Lehi-Beit Loya mixes painstaking manual labor with …

A vanished village, buried for centuries under the sands of time, is beginning to emerge in the cave-dotted lowlands southwest of Jerusalem. In typical old-new Israeli fashion, the work of revealing Beit Lehi-Beit Loya mixes painstaking manual labor with …

Life is full of surprises, and sometimes, those surprises can be buried deep within the earth, waiting to be discovered. Imagine stumbling upon a hidden treasure under enormous rocks, covered with layers of thick, unforgiving mud. It’s a scenario that …

An extremely rare carriage pulled by six donkeys was discovered by archaeologists in a tomb west of Qin Shi Huang’s mausoleum in Shaanxi province. Skeletons of sheep used to pull chariots for 2,000 years. Photo:  Dayoo News Archaeologists discovered the …

The medieval toilet or latrine, then called a privy or garderobe, was a primitive affair, but in a castle, one might find a little more comfort and certainly a great deal more design effort than had been invested elsewhere. Practicality, privacy, and …

A 2,400-year-old pit containing the remains of horses and chariots believed to belong to a member of an ancient royal household has been uncovered in China. The pit is one of a cluster of tombs thought to hold the remains of noble families of the Zheng …