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BAGHDAD—A British citizen was sentenced Monday by an Iraqi court to 15 years in prison on charges of attempting to smuggle artifacts out of the country, in a case that ...

The talisman believed to once belong to Napoléon Bonaparte went up for auction Friday. The rare artifact includes ...

One Ottawa man's backyard home project yielded more than a new patio when his contractor removed a sword ...

Talk about your yard sale finds. A small porcelain bowl bought for $35 at a Connecticut yard sale ...

NEW YORK—The auctioneer has been smiling and now he speaks slowly. He knows the big moment has arrived. ...

Archaeologists digging around the Alamo in San Antonio have located an artifact suspected to be from the 19th ...

History is slow to share its secrets, but did recently for a rural Jackson County man while clearing ...

What may be an ancient Chinese artifact mysteriously appeared in a small garden next to a pond, on ...

This advanced device "comes from the consciousness of an indigenous society with no written language," said anthropologist Ramiro ...

Did a time-traveler, a mouse, or a hoaxer involved in the dig leave this ring in the centuries-old ...

Mystery surrounds the most famous pair of lovers in ancient history.

The oldest known crown in the world, strangely decorated with vultures and doorways, was found among objects like ...

Did a Native American set foot on European soil long before we previously thought?

Rare Chinese and Japanese bronze mirrors have the strange property of seeming both opaque and transparent at the ...

It was considerably more difficult to file a customer complaint when you had to chip it into stone ...

Will the history books change? Evidence suggests the Chinese got to America before the Europeans.

Many Mongolians believe exhuming a corpse will destroy its soul. Genghis Khan went to great lengths to prevent ...

An archaeologist working with a brewery is recreating ancient beers from around the world, from places such as ...

A Buddha statue dating back to the 11th or 12th century was examined by CT scan and endoscopy ...

People in ancient times had more advanced levels of scientific understanding than we commonly give them credit for.

The mysterious metal spoken of in ancient Greece, said to glimmer with a reddish light in Atlantis, may ...

A controversial paper presented at the prestigious science conference, the 102nd Indian Science Congress in Mumbai, claims human ...

Who built the Derinkuyu underground city and why? One among several theories is that it was a shelter ...

Archaeologists in Cyprus have unearthed a 1,500-year-old amulet in the ancient city of Nea Paphos in Cyprus, which ...

Amateur treasure hunters struck it rich when they unearthed a massive hoard of more than 5,000 silver coins ...

A New Year's resolution is a tradition, most common in the West but found around the world, in ...

Mixed in with the reality of impressive tombs in China, is a legend of an enormous 1,000-foot white, ...