When examining the mysterious Egyptian tablet, the immediate visual impact is undeniable and completely mesmerizing. Carved from a solid, flawless block of high-quality alabaster, the artifact ...

An ancient artifact could be right in your own backyard. This was the case for a mom who was gardening with her baby in the town of Józefów in Poland. While gardening in May, they came across a ...

Over the past 60 years, archaeologists have found more than half a million artifacts during their investigations around Fort McCoy. Not all artifacts are collected during survey efforts performed to ...

Mundane wayward space snowball, or extraterrestrial visitor? Astronomers believe that our solar system's latest and only third ever confirmed interstellar visitor, 3I/ATLAS, is almost certainly a ...

Nearly 350 artifacts have been unearthed during research at the Łysa Góra archaeological site in Poland, including a rare 2,300-year-old Celtic helmet, providing further confirmation of the Celtic ...

The object was found by metal detectorists in Norfolk, England. Andrew Williams / Norfolk County Council Metal detectorists have unearthed a tiny trinket covered in beautiful, intricate designs in ...

Archaeologists with the Colorado State University (CSU) Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands (CEMML) were investigating an archaeological site near the North Flowage when they ...

1. Enounter, engagement, and object stories / Steve Brown, Ursula Frederick and Anne Clarke -- 2. What this awl means / Janet Spector -- 3. On toothpicks and elephants / Alexandra Kelly -- 4. Walking ...

The discovery of a Roman artifact in the Americas has sparked a debate about who truly discovered the New World. While Christopher Columbus is hailed as the first in 1492, archaeologists uncovered a ...

Sometimes wanting to display an artifact for the public to experience and wanting to preserve it for posterity is a hard balance to find. Light is a source of damage to artifacts and the effects are ...