Pieces once traded during the Greek and Roman eras or salvaged from Spanish shipwrecks continue to be popular with artisans ...

The discovery of a decapitated skull on a Roman frontier in northern Spain has turned a long abstract story of conquest into ...

Archaeologists uncover evidence showing how the Romans used decapitated heads to intimidate Celts during the siege of a ...

Ancient Persians believed the sky was blue because it reflected a massive sapphire beneath the Earth, giving the stone cosmic symbolism. Kings, priests, and rulers wore sapphires to signal wisdom, ...

How did decorated trees, cut-out cookies and stockings by the fireplace become Christmas symbols? Christmas symbols we all ...

It's a divine sign in an ancient legend, according to which the god Huitzilopochtli asked a group called the Mexica to leave ...

On a hilltop in east-central Poland, archaeologists have found an unusual Iron Age tool: an iron scalpel, likely once ...