This photo provided by the Gyeongju National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage shows the key artifacts on display.
MICHAEL Strauss issues a challenge: Try picking up his pride and joy, a gold-and-silver Rothschild menorah. The visitor tries with one hand and fails but remains fascinated by the beautiful piece made ...
A strange collection of objects found along a major pilgrimage route may have been used in "magical rituals" by sorcerers around 400 years ago, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) has announced.
"Today, China's classical antiquity is often studied through recovered artifacts, but before this practice became widespread, scholars instead reconstructed the distant past through classical texts ...
An astute owl with a round belly and pointy claws that served as a wine vessel crafted in ancient China, circa the 12th or 13th century B.C., is one of the oldest objects in "Eternal Offerings: ...
List of illustrations -- List of tables -- Preface: To Lothar / Li Shuicheng -- Introduction: Ritual and Economy in East Asian Archaeology / Rowan Flad and Anke Hein -- Uncovering disguised social ...
When a group of amateur archaeologists began exploring an ancient Roman site in the eastern part of England, they didn’t expect to find anything “spectacular.” “There was nothing to indicate there was ...
Archaeologists studying the vast Zvejnieki cemetery in Latvia have uncovered surprising truths about Stone Age life. Stone tools, long thought to symbolize male hunters, were actually buried just as ...
Actress Patricia Heaton, who is Catholic, is drawing backlash for a campaign calling on people to put up mezuzahs in solidarity with the Jewish community. A Jewish nonprofit that distributes mezuzahs ...