A previously unknown ancient Egyptian tomb, sealed since the Ramesside period more than three thousand years ago, has been ...

Researchers discovered that these 2,000-year-old cliff paintings in southern China were made with blood from women who'd just given birth.

More than 400 pictographs painted in red, orange, white, yellow, green and black covering basalt canyon walls are protected ...

Among North American rock art sites, the aptly-named Picture Cave stands out as one of the most impressive. In the cave’s ...

"Hidden within Parrish Creek Canyon is a spectacular pictograph panel, a fragile message from people who once knew this landscape intimately." ...

The polychrome mosaic once decorated a small room in a lavish villa complex. Researchers, students and volunteers have been ...

Newly discovered figurines point to skills that might have helped shape early humans’ expansion across Europe.

Archaeologists have come closer to restoring a stunning Pompeii ceiling fresco buried beneath ash for millennia, revealing an ...

Located in the banquet hall of a home with an adjoining bakery, the fresco shows the mythological romance of Dionysus, the ...

In 1958, archaeologists excavating the Sanctuary of Artemis at Brauron, Attica, uncovered a marble relief that had remained ...

In the sixth episode of our Stones & Bones video series, National Geographic digital editor Nicholas St. Fleur investigates a ...

A contemporary list of the New Seven Wonders of the World includes architectural marvels from various historical periods.