Before this recent discovery, only a handful of the jars had been found to contain bones or ash, and it seemed unlikely that so many massive stone vessels would have been carved solely for burial ...

The funerary marker, which surfaced on a New Orleans property last year, once belonged to a Roman soldier who died nearly ...

In central Laos, the landscape is littered with enormous stone jars, some 3 metres high, and we may be closer to ...

The remains of at least 37 people in an ancient stone 'jar' in northeastern Laos suggest that thousands similar jars were ...

Students are studying a piece of the past, known as the "Passy Wreck." Find out how their work is going far beyond the ...

Some Belfast High School students spent time with their feet in the mud and their hands in the dirt as they investigated a ...

Our team — which includes archaeologists from Macquarie University, France's HiSoMA research unit, and the Polish Academy of ...

Sophisticated new techniques produced a breakthrough.

In the mid-sixth century, a devastating disease swept across the Byzantine world and changed the course of entire cities. The ...

An impressive and mysterious 164-foot tunnel was unexpectedly discovered near Kibbutz Ramat Rachel in ...

Visitors to the Yorkshire Museum can see artifacts from the Melsonby Hoard, dating to the first century C.E., that rewrite ...

Rising abruptly from the lush, untamed jungles of southeastern Venezuela, Mount Roraima is a geological behemoth that defies ...