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Ancient Statues Emerge From the Waters Off Egypt’s Coast, Where They’d Been Hiding for Thousands of Years

Several large sculptures were among the trove of artifacts that divers recovered from the waters near Alexandria, Egypt.

Ancient Egyptian party-town building and relics pulled out in ocean discovery

Archaeologists discovered ancient docks and artifacts from a submerged 2,000-year-old city believed to be an extension of ...
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Ancient Egyptian Statues: The Engineering Feat No One Can Explain

How do you carve, transport, and erect a single block statue weighing over 1,000 tons—out of composite quartzite, flint, or ...

An ancient frog statue’s secret message

Also known as Norte Chico, the Caral civilization existed almost 5,000 years ago, placing the Andean culture alongside the ...

2,000-year-old Roman hall plus Christian symbols unearthed in biblical city from Book of Revelation

Recent excavations in the Turkish ruins of Laodicea reveal unique pentagonal Roman council hall with Christian etchings. The ...
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Why Were Ancient Statues of This Egyptian Female Pharaoh Destroyed?

In the 1920s, archaeologists excavating the necropolis of Deir el-Bahri near Luxor, Egypt, found many broken statues of the ancient Egyptian queen Hatshepsut—one of the civilization’s few female ...
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Ancient Greek and Roman statues often smelled like roses, a new study says

Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek and Roman statues than the plain white marble you typically see in museums. A few years ago, museum visitors in New York City ...
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Ancient Greek and Roman Statues Were More Than Eye Candy—They Were Also Perfumed

New study claims Ancient Greek and Roman statues were perfumed. © Image by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg), CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses ...