Professor Kenichi Yano of Ritsumeikan University emphasized the discovery's unique significance: ...

Researchers uncovered rare azurite traces on a Final Paleolithic artifact, overturning assumptions that early Europeans used ...

Archaeologists in Turkey have uncovered a 9,500-year-old ancient settlement at Sırçalıtepe, revealing structures, artifacts, ...

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) has returned 41 ancient polychrome terracotta reliefs to their original home in Düver ...

San Francisco's Asian Art Museum returns four ancient Thai bronzes to Thailand, ending their possession since the 1960s.

Western museums are returning the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, but a state-of-the-art museum to display them is still a long way ...

The chance rediscovery of the ancient Chinese Sanxingdui civilization is legendary in and of itself. In 1929, an unsuspecting peasant in Sichuan province stumbled upon a cache of jade relics while ...

Concrete was the foundation of the ancient Roman empire. It enabled Rome's storied architectural revolution as well as the ...

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The discovery of the settlements over the years has led to a new understanding of the Asia Minor and Anatolia regions.

A digital atlas of ancient Rome’s highways and byways reveals a road network that was more extensive than thought.