In its day, Baiae was a cloistered seaside getaway for Rome’s elite—and a debaucherous one at that. Home to a villa belonging to Julius Caesar as well as those of emperors Augustus, Nero, and Caligula ...

The finds include votives, jewelry, ritual instruments, and a duck-shaped pourer. A votive hand is emerging from the sediment during an archaeological excavation in Thonis-Heracleion. End of 5th ...

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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has awarded a team of researchers from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) and UC San Diego for ...

Below the surfaces of freshwater springs, lakes and rivers, sunken landscapes hold clues about the daily lives, beliefs and diets of the first humans to settle in what is now the United States. But ...

Norwegian marine archaeologists from several institutions have recently dived into Lake Mjøsa in search of shipwrecks. During this dive, they inspected five known wrecks in the lake, with one wreck in ...

Archaeologists have discovered by chance what they say are the remains of a 16th-century merchant ship more than 1.5 miles underwater off southern France, the deepest such find in its section of the ...

There are ancient pirates and modern treasure hunters. They are separated by more than 200 years of history, differences in the available technology, and types of sponsorship that keep them afloat – ...

Iron Age cargoes from Dor reveal how ancient Mediterranean trade evolved alongside shifting empires and political power. New ...

Archeaologist Neil Puckett swims with a mastodon bone he dug up from the bottom of the Aucilla River. Adam Burke Courtesy of the Center for the Study of the First Americans (CSFA) Unlike almost any ...

At the underwater archaeology site of Gran Carro di Bolsena in Aiola, Italy, divers found an ancient clay figurine pegged to be from the 9th or 10th century BC. The ritualistic-looking item was ...

As a kid, I’d write letters to George Bass, an American professor of underwater archaeology who used to contribute to National Geographic magazine. He actually responded, and we carried on this ...