Love, Rituals, and Remembrance In ancient Rome, dogs were not just guard animals or hunting companions, they were also beloved members of the household and, in some cases, symbols of social status.

A trio of archaeologists from the University of Barcelona and the University of Castilla-La Mancha, both in Spain, and the ...

Unraided crypts are hard to come by. And yet in 1968, soldiers stumbled upon the imperial family tombs of a Han dynasty ...

Many Christian families reported living in fear — facing threats of social boycott, electricity cuts and verbal abuse. Some have left their villages or publicly disavowed their faith to avoid conflict ...

Ancient ebony figures discovered in a necropolis in Israel are stylistically African, but made of Asian wood and surfaced ...

Roman society was, in many ways, surprisingly sophisticated. It built remarkable things like aqueducts that snaked over long ...

Three 1,500-year-old burials in the Negev desert have pendants of bone and ebony that may depict the deceased individuals' ancestors.

New look at Hellenistic-era graves shows these horizontal niche burials first appeared in Phoenician cities a century before ...

A recent archaeological excavation in Switzerland took a somber turn when historians discovered a collection of infant ...

Doctoral student Mutsumi Okabe was hosted by Meadows’ Department of Art History this spring to further her research in ...

Researchers at Israel identified remains tied to a Roman funerary pig ritual, offering rare insight into Roman military ...

Archaeologists working in the Tangier Peninsula, in northwest Morocco, have discovered ancient cemeteries, rock art and ...