Chinese magic mirrors are these mind-boggling artifacts that have been around for centuries. Basically, they're made of ...

A family cleaning their backyard in New Orleans discovered an unusual marble tablet with some characters in Latin. Daniella ...

A family cleaning their backyard in New Orleans discovered an unusual marble tablet with some characters in Latin. Daniella Santoro turned to an archaeologist friend for help. It turns out to be ...

An excavation at Oxford University has yielded ancient book clasps, medieval pens and imported fish bones, offering ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. NEW ORLEANS — A New Orleans family cleaning up their overgrown backyard made an extremely unusual ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A New Orleans family cleaning up their overgrown backyard made an extremely unusual find: Under the weeds was a mysterious marble tablet with Latin characters that included the ...

NEW YORK CITY — A man who worked with tomb raiders was sentenced to prison for smuggling hundreds of ancient relics looted from crypts in Egypt, including sculptures from 1900 BCE and the carving of a ...

When most people picture Egyptian pyramids, they imagine gold treasures and mummy-filled chambers straight out of an ...