So well preserved “it almost still shines” is what archaeologists have termed the incredible find of a 3,000-year-old Bronze Age sword found in the town of Nördlingen,…

Nearly 1,000 artifacts including coins and ornate pottery from the Ming Dynasty have been salvaged from two discovered shipwrecks. Nearly 1,000 cultural relics have been recovered from…

Emerging from the golden sandstone of the Caribbean earth, this figure holds more than form—it holds memory. Carved between the 10th and 15th centuries, when the Taíno…

In the shadow of Vesuvius, where the ash fell like fatal snow, a humble eatery still serves its ghosts. The thermopolium of Pompeii—part tavern, part street stall,…

Beneath the wide, dust-hazed sky of Memphis, the earth cradles a fallen king. Here lies Ramesses the Great—or what remains of him. His colossal limestone form, once…

At dawn, when the first light spills like molten gold over the peaks of southeastern Anatolia, the stone gods of Mount Nemrut stir from their long night….