A 79-mile-long wall made of stones and earth has been discovered in central Vietnam. The wall was built in the early nineteenth century along an ancient road. Technology usually used to study moon rocks is being applied to sixteenth-century tombs in England. The tombs, which belonged to the powerful Howard family, were moved and reassembled […]

Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority have finished the controversial seven-year excavation of a Second Temple period drainage channel. The channel is located in Jerusalem’s Old City, near the Al-Aqsa mosque compound. Hermann Parzinger, president of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, has replied to Egypt’s request for the return of the famed bust of Nefertiti. […]