A Mesopotamian culture’s decorated ceramics show some early roots of math, researchers argued.

For the marine archaeologist Sean Kingsley, the most honest history can be found on the seafloor.

The ruins of a 2,400-year-old complex suggest that, to the Greeks of antiquity, Homer’s protagonist was not just a character in a poem but a figure of genuine devotion.

Thousands of mysterious containers lie scattered across northern Laos. These “death jars” may have provided a form of communal interment, archaeologists reported.