When Luigi Maria Caliò, a classical archaeology professor, first brought students from the University of Catania to excavate an area of Ostia Antica, the ancient commercial port of call outside Rome, he wasn’t sure what he might find. The dig site had not been explored in modern times, despite its central location next to a…
Archaeologists have found a pharaoh’s tomb in an Egyptian valley west of Luxor, Egypt’s ministry of antiquities announced this week, in what officials called the first excavation of a royal tomb since Tutankhamen’s burial chamber was unearthed over a century ago. The newly identified tomb belonged to Thutmose II, who is believed to have reigned…
It is a riddle that has confounded scholars for over a century. And now it carries a handsome cash prize: $1 million for anyone who can decipher the script of the ancient Indus Valley civilization. Relatively little is known about the creators of the script, who built a sprawling urban system about 5,000 years ago…
The archaeologists who recently excavated a private bath complex in a luxurious villa in the ancient city of Pompeii are still not sure whom it may have belonged to. But they do know that the owner wanted to wow his guests. Easily hosting 30, the full-service complex — with a calidarium, tepidarium and frigidarium, or…