Contrary to what its name might suggest, the Alexander Sarcophagus, a marvel of Greek artistry, does not house the body of ...

Archaeologists in Caesarea, an ancient port city located on the Mediterranean coast of modern-day Israel, have discovered a 1 ...

A team of restoration workers in Dijon, France, pulled up a section of stone flooring inside the Church of Saint Philibert ...

This sarcophagus offers an unusual perspective of the idea of death—not as an end, but as the beginning of a new path.” ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a 1,700-year-old marble sarcophagus depicting Greek gods Hercules and Dionysus in a drinking ...

Archaeologists believe that a wealthy family that enjoyed a rousing lifestyle commissioned the piece to reflect their ...

Israeli archaeologists working at a site outside of Caesarea uncovered an exquisitely carved marble sarcophagus that had been ...

In a discovery hailed as the “first of its kind,” archaeologists in Israel have found a Roman marble sarcophagus which ...

English explorer Howard Carter successfully unearthed the treasures of King Tutankhamun's tomb. This discovery is considered ...

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The pigment Egyptian blue was used in ancient Egypt and Rome, but the recipe was lost to time. Now, chemists have replicated ...