The marble block was found in a hall of baptism called a photisterion. It may shed light on “a stage of the early Christian ...

Archaeologists uncover a unique marble bowl in a Byzantine church in ancient Hippos, Israel, offering new clues about early baptism rituals.

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A groundbreaking underwater archaeological mission has confirmed the existence of a submerged Maya settlement beneath the waters of Lake Atitlán in the Guatemalan highlands, reframing the site from ...

More than 12,000 years ago, Native American hunter-gatherers were already making and using dice—thousands of years before ...

Social media users shared some imaginative theories on what the device could be, from a "bug sweeper" to a "photo electric ...

In the Orkney Islands, archaeologists close the chapter on a legendary excavation, capping two decades of remarkable Neolithic discoveries The Ness of Brodgar—roughly, “headland of the bridge farm” in ...

This process resulted in 1,332 resistivity readings across Kom C, which revealed a mysterious, partially buried mudbrick ...

Conquering lands well beyond modern-day Italy, the ancient Romans left countless travel-worthy wonders across an empire that ...

A new study in American Antiquity presents evidence that the earliest known dice in human history were made and used by ...

Ancient Greeks spent much of their time playing board games practically on a daily basis. They were a beloved part of ancient ...