A treasure-hunting team explores an abandoned coal mining area where discarded rocks contain beautifully preserved fossils of ...

Fifteen ancient Greek treasures worth nearly $3 million, some looted from Crete in 1964, have been handed back to Greece in ...

Archaeologists in Romania have unearthed an elite Roman family’s ancient treasure, buried for centuries beneath the remains of a millennia-old city. The discovery, announced by the National History ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An ancient Spanish treasure discovered in 1963 yielded some surprising results when testing showed that pieces were made from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A collection of centuries-old silver jewelry once belonged to an ancient Dacian aristocrat, according to local officials in ...

A trove of ancient coins has been unearthed at a construction site in Germany — after remaining hidden for more than 2,000 years. The discovery, made at Singer Berg in the central German state of ...

A decade after jihadists ransacked Iraq's famed Nimrud site, archaeologists have been painstakingly putting together its ancient treasures, shattered into tens of thousands of tiny fragments. Once the ...

A 4,000-year-old limestone relief has mysteriously disappeared from a sealed tomb in Egypt's famed Saqqara Necropolis, raising fresh questions about the security of the nation's ancient treasures. The ...

Loot: The Battle over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World Sharon Waxman Times Books; 414 pages The Gist: The great museums of the world are stuffed with spoils of war. They’re crammed with ...

In the Turkish region of Kazakhstan, archaeologists discovered ancient treasures in a burial mound dating back approximately 2,000 years. Researchers point to the Kangyu Era as the time period that ...