Phys.org reports that a wooden shipwreck discovered in Iran on the southern coast of the Caspian Sea has been studied by a ...

The Guardian reports that a sword dated to the sixth century has been discovered in an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in southeastern ...

Constructed in 1723, Old North Church is the oldest surviving church building in Boston. Painted by a member of the ...

ATHENS, GREECE—Greece repatriated more than 1,000 ancient coins to Turkey at a ceremony in Athens attended by Greece’s Culture Minister Lina Mendoni and Turkey’s Culture Minister Mehmet Nuri ...

AIGIALEIA, GREECE—ArtNet News reports that a portrait of the Byzantine emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos was discovered during restoration work at the Holy Monastery of Pammegiston Taxiarchon ...

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE—According to an Associated Press report, researchers have found the location of a cemetery where at least 28 enslaved people were buried at The Hermitage, a Tennessee ...

POMPEII, ITALY—It has traditionally been accepted by most scholars that the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that destroyed the southern Italian city of Pompeii and many of its neighbors happened on ...

An underwater archaeologist documents a 2,500-year-old shipwreck discovered off the southern tip of Sicily. An iron anchor thought to date to the seventh century a.d. was found near the shipwreck.

OXFORD, ENGLAND—According to a BBC News report, archaeologists have uncovered the medieval kitchens of Oxford University's Oriel College, which was founded in 1326. The excavation coincides with ...

NOGALES, ARIZONA—Live Science reports that independent scholar Deni Seymour unearthed a 40-pound bronze cannon—reported to be the oldest known firearm in the continental United States—at the ...