Between 1250 and 1325 CE, the Mississippian people transformed a bend in the Etowah River into the Southeast’s most powerful ...

When Bonnie Seymour took a job as assistant curator of Nashville's Parthenon museum, one of the first things she did was to look through the collections. Among paintings by American artists and ...

Divers exploring a 2,000-year-old shipwreck off Adrasan, Turkey, uncovered perfectly stacked ceramics — a time capsule of ...

Off the coast of a Greek island sits the Antikythera shipwreck, a 2,000-year-old wreck with a story that inspired an Indiana Jones movie. From its beginnings as an accidental discovery to the recent ...

Archaeologists in Denmark recently uncovered 30 Viking graves—a remarkable find on its own. The bigger surprise? The graves ...

Greek mythology is full of artifacts endowed with supernatural powers, in addition to a myriad of unforgettable gods, ...