Archaeologists spend careers mapping the expected, yet some of the most revealing discoveries arrive where no one thought to look. When a carved human face emerged from a context that should have held ...

Recent archaeological discoveries are challenging our understanding of ancient civilizations and their timelines. Underwater ruins off the coast of Cuba, estimated to be 6,000 years old, suggest the ...

The Yale Art Gallery holds some treasures from an ancient city in Syria, where many religions flourished side by side, including a new one called Christianity. The city was attacked, abandoned, and ...

While excavating near the ancient city of Armageddon in Israel, archaeologists unearthed a 3,300-year-old Canaanite "tea set," a dollhouse-sized temple, and one of the oldest known winepresses in the ...