Hundreds of mysterious, old-fashioned shoes washed up on Ogmore Beach in Wales, baffling local officials who are pondering two theories about the shoes' origin.

This intricate gold ring found in Norway features a deceptive blue glass setting likely designed to mimic a holy sapphire.

Seventh-century Anglo-Saxon jewelry found on a hillside in Lincolnshire; as there were no graves, these may have been ...

Archaeologists working at an ancient burial site in Bahrain have made a remarkable discovery that is shedding new light on the mysterious Dilmun civilization. A rare 3,300-year-old faience mask was ...

Archaeologists from Texas Tech University discovered the lost 18th-century Mission Nuestra Señora del Espíritu Santo after ...

Researchers suggest that they have recovered sequences from ancient works and from letters that may belong to the Renaissance ...

In Earth's fossil record, soft-bodied organisms like jellyfish rarely stand the test of time. What's more, it's hard for any ...

There was likely a familial relation between two of the fallen warriors—father and son—but the third body’s tie to the two ...

The 20-centimeter glass phallus, dating from the 16th or 17th century, was discovered in a two-meter-deep latrine shaft connected to the living quarters of a noblewomen's religious house in Herford.

The oldest known cremation pyre in Africa is shedding light on the complex funeral rites of ancient hunter-gatherers 9,500 years ago.

Imagine stumbling upon an object so strange, so impossible to explain, that it throws everything you thought you knew about ...

When thinking about items on a shipwreck, one might imagine a treasure chest full of coins, stack of gold bars, ship cargo or ...