The discovery, made in a remote village in Brazil’s Amazon Rainforest interior, included seven urns, two of which were larger than the rest. Archaeologists from the Mamirauá Institute said in a ...

The recent discovery of dozens of 2,000 year old burials near Saqqara's necropolis has shed light on the more ordinary ...

The Odeon of Herod Atticus recently opened the 70th season of the annual Athens Epidaurus Festival, a cherished annual ...

To tourists, it’s the ancient theater at the foot of the Acropolis. Artists revere it for the majestic stage where legends ...

Archaeologists recently discovered an 1,800-year-old mask that they believe may be a spiritual representation of a powerful ...

He was a minor king, yet Tutankhamun’s tomb might have been the most richly stocked of all in ancient Egypt. Now research is ...

This sacred mask is etched with symbols of Sona, a sophisticated and now rarely used writing system A wooden hunter’s toolbox inscribed with an ancient writing system from Zambia has been making ...

A wooden hunter’s toolbox inscribed with an ancient writing system from Zambia has been making waves on social media. "We've grown up being told that Africans didn't know how to read and write ...

Similarly, in 2016 the U.S. returned a collection of stolen artifacts to Egypt, including an ancient wooden sarcophagus, a mummy shroud and mummified hand.

Every early spring, the southern Hungarian town of Mohács hosts an ancient pagan festival. The streets fill with men wearing wooden masks and thick woolly cloaks in a centuries-old tradition. The ...

In the early 2000s, he lived in Salzburg, Austria, and learned more about Krampus and met the people who carve the masks out of wood and make the fur outfits out of long goat hair.

Tut's iconic golden death mask. | assalve/E+/Getty Images. Surely the most famous ancient tomb on Earth is that of the boy pharaoh Tutankhamun, who died in 1327 BCE.In November 1922, a British ...