The three-story House of the Golden Bracelet on the Vicolo del Farmacista was one of the most opulent in Pompeii, its walls covered with vibrant frescoes depicting theatrical scenes and imitating ...

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA—According to a Newsweek report, a new study of the Horned Serpent Panel, a rock wall at the La Belle France site painted by the San people at least 200 years ago ...

OSLO, NORWAY—According to a Science Norway report, a team of archaeologists used clues from an early nineteenth-century travel journal to find and begin to excavate the site of a shack on Norway ...

SAXONY-ANHALT, GERMANY—Excavation of a seventeenth-century gallows site in eastern Germany revealed two bone pits and at least 16 individual graves, according to a Live Science report.

The site of the seventeenth-century home of John Doane, one of the first English families to settle in what is now the town ...

When you were a child, you probably had toys such as plastic or porcelain dolls and plush, furry animals that may have included mythical beings such as unicorns. You may have created skits in ...

19th-century lithograph showing a baseball game, Confederate prison, Salisbury, North Carolina (Illustration: Otto Botticher, Union Prisoners at Salisbury, N, C., 1863. Courtesy of Reynolda House ...

DERRY, NORTHERN IRELAND—According to a report in The Belfast Telegraph, an excavation conducted in what is now the center of Derry uncovered city walls constructed between 1613 and 1619.

VAN, TURKEY—Newsweek reports that three well-preserved bronze shields and a helmet were discovered at Ayanis, a 2,700-year-old Urartian citadel on a hill overlooking Lake Van in eastern Turkey ...

One of two 2,400-year-old gold vessels found under a mound at the site of Sengileevskoe-2 in southern Russia depicts griffins attacking a stag. (Courtesy Andrey Belinski) Beneath the pair of gold ...

WATERLOO, BELGIUM—The Independent reports that a trench containing human and animal remains has been excavated at the site of a British field hospital at Mont-Saint-Jean farm in Belgium by ...