Black market smugglers vanished with a priceless piece of history—completely unaware of the promise left behind to punish ...

The team located a fresh find of artifacts that illuminates Roman cultural views on the afterlife.

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Archaeologists in Romania uncovered 34 Roman‑era graves and rare artifacts during a preventative dig ahead of building a new ...

Italian archaeologists recently uncovered a "monumental necropolis" that appeared to honor an elite class of people thousands of years ago, provincial officials announced this month. The ancient ...

An internal view of the Necropolis of Via Triumphalis south of Vatican City (photo by Carole Raddato via Wikimedia Commons) For the first time, the Vatican Museums network in Italy will grant direct ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pit tomb with a skeleton surrounded by rocks uncovered near Amorosi, Italy. An ancient necropolis discovered near Naples, Italy ...

The 3,800-year-old mummy of a revered Egyptian woman, Lady Sattjeni, has been discovered in Southeastern Egypt in spectacular condition. The excavation, undertaken by the Egyptian ministry of ...