A CT scan of the soil covering the skull showed the 13-cm. high helmet. Like the armor, which was found last year, the helmet is made with kozane metal scales.
Dating back around 2,300 years ago and found in pieces in a reused tomb in modern-day Luxor, the collar is painted in a vivid array of colors and probably adorned the body of a wealthy undertaker.
€ 500,000 have been raised so far in the framework of a campaign aiming to fund the restoration of the Nike of Samothrace, according to a statement issued by The Louvre, where the famous statue is housed since 1884.
A four and half-thousand year-old dwelling located at Kultepe mound, in a district of Kayseri, in central Turkey might be one of the largest Bronze Age palaces ever located in the Near East.
Cornell University is preparing to forfeit to Iraq a vast collection of ancient cuneiform tablets in what is expected to be one of the largest returns of antiquities by an American university.
The Norwegian Vikings maintained trade connections with Persia and the Byzantine Empire through a network of traders from a variety of places and cultures who brought the silk to the Nordic countries.
Opening of the temporary exhibition “Leaving a Mark on History: Treasures from Greek Museums” on Thursday November 7, at the National Archaeological Museum, Sofia, Bulgaria.
People buried in double and triple burials might have come from very different strata of society, and slaves could have been offered as grave gifts in these burials.
Whether a plausible scenario or just another piece of good media material, the new findings on why Tutankhamun's mummy looks burnt are to be shown on TV for the first time in UK's Channel 4.
The 2013 University of Edinburgh archaeological investigations at the multi-period site of Prastio-Mesorotsos in the Paphos district have been completed.
Community scientists refer to as the Lusatian culture lived in the basin of the Vistula and Oder rivers, as well in today’s Saxony, Brandenburg, northern Czech Republic and Lusatia.
Now in her 50s, Peruvian Ministry of Culture historian Blanca Alva, who is also deaf-mute, has been successfully in charge of protecting ancient sites from tresspassing, sometimes under difficult and dangerous conditions.
The traces from the Hurrian civilization, connected somehow with the later Hittites, were found in the Küçükçekmece river basin in the western parts of the city.
Over 500 treasures of Greek antiquity will be showcased at the Canadian Museum of Civilization beginning in June 2015 as the Museum presents The Greeks – From Agamemnon to Alexander the Great.
Blackbeard is known to have gathered a hodge-podge of cannons from different countries as he equipped his vessel with 40 guns. To date, 29 guns have been located at the shipwreck site near Beaufort.
New research has identified the man who designed the Bayeux Tapestry, one of the most important artworks of the Middle Ages. Historian Howard B. Clarke believes that this was Scolland, the abbot of St.Augustine’s monastery in Canterbury, and that it was made around the year 1075.
The University of Southampton has been awarded €2.49 million (£2.1 million) by the European Research Council to study a large network of Roman ports stretching from Turkey in the east, to Spain in the west.