These items can range from small stone balls to documents that are still being studied. Here are the 15 most unexplained ancient artifacts. Related: Rare Artifacts from the Ancient Egyptian Era ...

In the Ancient Mediterranean, the invention of papyrus paper was vitally important to record keeping. Developed sometime around 2600 BCE in Egypt, one of the oldest civilizations in the world ...

This New Archeological Museum Is the Largest in the World — With 100,000 Items From Ancient Times After 20 years of development, The Grand Egyptian Museum brings ancient Egypt back to life.

Researchers at the Fitzwilliam Museum in the U.K. have uncovered a rare handprint left on ancient Egyptian pottery.

In the first century B.C, King Antiochus I of Commagene built a sanctuary unlike any of his predecessors. His unexplored tomb at Nemrut Dağ may show us more about death and worship in ancient Turkey.

Archaeologists have spotted it on ancient coffins, sculptures, murals and ceramics. The oldest known sample of Egyptian blue decorates a small alabaster bowl dating to 3250 B.C.E.

Built between 294 and 282 B.C.E., it quickly assumed its place among the Seven Wonders of the ancient world, joining structures like the Lighthouse of Alexandria, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon ...

Robert Garland, professor emeritus of the classics at Colgate University, is the author, most recently, of “What to Expect When You’re Dead: An Ancient Tour of Death and the Afterlife.” ...

In addition to the writings of ancient authors such as Pliny the Elder and Vitruvius, we also have the excavations of Charles Newton, whose work is documented in a massive tome that visitors to the ...

Paramount-owned U.K. broadcaster Channel 5 has acquired premium history docuseries “Seven Wonders of the Ancient World,” a Keshet International (KI) and SandStone Global collaboration.