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ALBANY, N.Y.—New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art said Friday that it will return more than a dozen pieces of ancient artwork to Cambodia and Thailand after they were tied to ...

LIMA—An ancient polychrome wall discovered in northern Peru is believed to be over 4,000 years old and could ...

NICOSIA, Cyprus—New discoveries including gold ornaments and fine pottery at an ancient port city in Cyprus dating back ...

LISBON—Twice a year, a hatch in a busy Lisbon street opens to reveal steps leading to one of ...

For centuries in Italy, people seeking good health have traveled to the spa village of San Casciano dei ...

In 1820, the preeminent neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova completed a marble sculpture of George Washington that divided many ...

This piece of music depicts a miraculous story. The composer was in meditation, and a series of pictures ...

The Uluru in central Australia is one of the world's greatest natural wonders, with its striking magnificent natural form, unpredictable colors, ...

ROME—Archaeologists in southern Italy have discovered ancient warrior helmets and the ruins of a painted brick wall at ...

BAGHDAD—The United States is returning more than 17,000 ancient artifacts looted and smuggled out of Iraq after the ...

AMATHUS, Cyprus—It's said that Demetrius the Besieger, a mighty warrior king and one of Alexander the Great's successors, ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—The biggest, most sophisticated Mars rover ever built—a car-size vehicle bristling with cameras, microphones, drills, and ...

Many of the spiritual teachings passed down for thousands of years seem to have similar things to say ...

SYDNEY—A Consul-General based in Australia got her first taste of Shen Yun Performing Arts when she attended the ...

Archaeologists have discovered an undisturbed Roman shipwreck loaded with ancient-era products, the study of which is expected to ...

A man in Siberia has discovered the mummified head of an ancient giant wolf. Pavel Efimov was walking ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) returned an ancient powder horn on Jan. 15 that was stolen over ...

ROME—Archaeologists have unearthed the petrified remains of a harnessed horse and saddle in the stable of an ancient ...

If you think going to the dentist is painful now, imagine what it'd have been like 13,000 years ...

Researchers in Canada recently discovered a bizarre, roughly 30-armed prehistoric life form that may have been an early ...

Anthropologists announced the discovery of a 38,000-year-old engraved image in France.

Otters have been roaming the planet for quite some time, and researchers from China, France and the U.S. ...

Researchers in Israel have discovered an engraved stone that identifies Gargilius Antiquus as Judea’s Roman governor at the ...

Take a tour of this really ancient plateau on Mars.

For decades, researchers have been trying to figure out who these mummified knees belonged to. And now, they ...