Tom Metcalfe

Divers off the coast of Naples, Italy have recovered a large chunk of chiseled obsidian that likely went down in a Stone Age shipwreck more than 5,000 years ago.

The research challenges the idea that languages from prehistoric Mexico spread along with maize farming in California.

The artifact is from an Iron Age settlement at Hattusa that was established after the city was abandoned by the Hittites.

The researchers say their study pushes back the dates for the use of spear-throwers in Europe by more than 10,000 years.

Phallic objects like this were common in the Roman world to ward off evil.

A Hebrew note found in the Vatican Library describes a 1446 earthquake swarm previously unknown to seismologists.

Only the sheep's skeletons remain, but such vehicles appear in Chinese lore.

There were no lions in 16th-century Puerto Rico — so was the cave drawing made by someone who'd actually seen one?

The weapons are among a variety of explosive devices used in China during the Ming dynasty.

The rise and fall of the Garamantes in what is now Libya is a cautionary tale for regions that rely on ancient groundwater.

Research suggests cannibalism was a funerary rite for the Magdalenian people in northwest Europe, but others preferred to bury their dead.

The discovery shows the popularity of the ancient ruler hundreds of years after his death.

The discovery includes two roughly 1,200-year-old brooches, made from bronze and once gilded with gold, that may have belonged to an aristocratic woman.

An inscription on the 1,400-year-old tomb shows the dead man, who was posthumously declared emperor, was buried as a duke.

Researchers are still studying the ancient text of an unknown language, written in cuneiform on a clay tablet.

A new study suggests that Spain's ancient peoples shared complex beliefs about death and the afterlife.

Archaeologists think the man died during the Merovingian period, an early stage of the Germanic-speaking empire of the Franks.

An analysis of cloth found inside the cannon suggests that it dates to the 14th century and that the weapon was charged with gunpowder and ready to fire.

The stone spheres were crafted by early hominins who were trying to create symmetry in the objects, a new study suggests.

Farming fundamentally altered the way humans live, eventually changing people from nomadic hunter-gatherers to sedentary city-dwellers.

The remains have been identified as those of a gunner killed when the badly damaged aircraft crashed into the sea in 1943.

The object was found on the seafloor off Florida, near the wreck of a Spanish treasure galleon.

The recovered wreck will help tell the full story of America's first Black military pilots.

The new look of Charles Edward Stuart as a young man is based on forensic studies of his death masks.

Archaeologists think the temple dates to the first century B.C., before the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem.