A team of researchers in the Netherlands set out to decipher the rules of an ancient Roman board game, with an assist from artificial intelligence.

A curious ancient Roman artifact has drawn renewed attention as researchers report finally solving the mystery of its undeciphered markings.

Buried for centuries, the coins carried the marks of time. Corrosion masked their identity and value. Cleaning them was not about making them look new, but about preserving what survived. As the ...

In the journal Antiquity, Dr. Shokouh Khosravi published preliminary findings of the largest known corpus of prehistoric seal impressions in the entire ancient world. The corpus, made up of over 7,000 ...

With the penny being ushered out of circulation early in the 21st century, theologians, historians, archaeologists and numismatists continue to glean insights from coins of the first century, when ...

The avid thrifter told Newsweek that he almost "skipped over" the coin before asking to take a better look at it.

Cleaning ancient coins is about preservation, not shine. This video shows how Graeme from Unearthed carefully cleans bronze ...

Who was Byzas, the legendary Greek founder of the city of Byzantium? This article examines where he was from, what he did, and when he lived.

For centuries, the image of Hannibal’s elephants has lived in the realm of legend and literature. This single bone — just 10 centimeters in size — may help bring it into the realm of confirmed ...

A 2,200-year-old elephant bone found in Spain may finally prove Hannibal brought war elephants to the battlefield.

The Carthaginian general famously used elephants during the Punic Wars. But until now, archaeologists had never found skeletal remains linking the animals to the conflict ...

People that are interested in history, they don’t know [you can own an ancient artifact],’ Yasha Bykhovsky said.