Portrait of an 18th century small dog believed to be Marie Antoinette’s toy poodle Pompom. sold at auction on Friday for $279,400., 56 times the presale estimate of $5,000. This

Two ancient embalming workshops, one for humans and one for animals, were found in the Saqqara necropolis southeast of Cairo. Workshops found under a hill near the temple of the

Archaeologists have discovered the remains the earliest Iron Age house in Attica at the archaeological site of Thorikos, 40 miles south of Athens. The structure first appeared as a result

The remains of the Temple of Venus and Rome, the largest sacred structure ever built in the Eternal City, have survived to this day. reopened to the public after an

Excavations of a sumptuous Roman bath at Carlisle Cricket Club have unearthed two monumental statue heads thought to date from the early 3rd century. The sandstone heads are two feet

Two shipwrecks of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), one laden with thousands of intact porcelain objects and another with wooden logs, were found deep under the South China Sea. The wreckage

Bears are depicted on a lead plate amulet found in the medieval fortress of Balak Dere near the village of Khukhla in southern Bulgaria. one of the earliest known Cyrillic

Archaeologists have discovered group of petroglyphs from the late Scandinavian Bronze Age hidden under a thick layer of moss in Bohuslän, southwest Sweden. Forty figures, including 13 ships, nine horses,

A carved relief of the face, cornucopia and phallus was discovered at the archaeological site of Tossal de la Cala in present-day Benidorm on the southeastern Mediterranean coast of Spain.

Archaeologists excavating the archaeological site of Ñusta Hispana in the Peruvian region of Vilcabamba discovered a group 38 pre-Hispanic metal artifacts. Four ceremonial vessels, one ring, four bracelets, two ceremonial