In an astonishing case of cultural heritage misuse, a 3,000-year-old Phrygian rock-cut tomb in the village of Ayazini, Türkiye, has been illegally transformed into a café-restaurant.

For centuries, garum's pungent, briny charm haunted the written word of imperial cooks and self-righteous philosophers only.

Under the quaint Provençal village of Arles, the skeleton of a lost empire in stone, lime, and lead has been unboxed through geological archaeology.

A groundbreaking genetic study has overturned long-held assumptions about the history of leprosy in the Americas.

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In a far-off corner of Brazil's Upper Amazon, seven massive funerary urns have been excavated from under the roots of a fallen tree — and with them, a whole chapter in the history of the Indigenous is ...

In the floodplain of Egypt's eastern Nile Delta, sun-baked and desolate, archaeologists have uncovered a city once built under the watchful eye of the cobra goddess, Wadjet.

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