A 3,300-year-old mask found in Bahrain reveals new details about the ancient Dilmun civilization’s burial customs.

Archaeologists working at an ancient burial site in Bahrain have made a remarkable discovery that is shedding new light on the mysterious Dilmun civilization. A rare 3,300-year-old faience mask was ...

A one-foot-wide bronze mask dating to around 1100 b.c. emerges from beneath a bronze vessel containing cowrie shells during recent excavations at the site of Sanxingdui in China’s Sichuan Province.

Indiana’s frigid and snowy weather has set the stage for the first day of winter this Sunday, Dec. 21. The Winter Solstice not only marks the beginning of our coldest season but is the “shortest” day ...

For ancient craftspeople, who had to fashion everything by hand, specialized tools such as saws and awls must have been among their most prized possessions. For a people as artistically accomplished ...

Ross Larue played in the fields near Rickenbacker Airport as a kid. He helped farm the land as a teen. He's seen first-hand the transition from Air Force jets to Ohio Air National Guard missions. So ...

When the frantic pace of the holidays finally slows down at the end of the year, that becomes a time for reflection. Looking back over the history we've shared in this space over the past year, I ...

January 21: Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs announced she was seeking $7 million to aid Arizona State Museum’s repatriation of Native American human remains and artifacts. “The hardworking staff at the ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ever sequenced. A mosaic death mask believed to have belonged to the Maya ...

Cahokia Mounds, an area located in Southern Illinois, is rich in history, but also offers some bits of a mystery about its early settlers.