Unraided crypts are hard to come by. And yet in 1968, soldiers stumbled upon the imperial family tombs of a Han dynasty ...

Scientists have unearthed the body of a 4,500-year-old woman in Peru. What’s surprising is that they found not just her bones ...

Three 1,500-year-old burials in the Negev desert have pendants of bone and ebony that may depict the deceased individuals' ...

First-known example of overhead ring placement suggests handles were designed as lifting grips for Roman-period wooden ...

Ancient ebony figures discovered in a necropolis in Israel are stylistically African, but made of Asian wood and surfaced ...

During roadwork construction, archaeologists in northern Germany uncovered 3,000-year-old Bronze Age cremation urns.

A set of rare and intricately carved figurines — including miniature heads of African figures fashioned from black wood and bone — have been discovered in 1,500-year-old Christian graves of women and ...

Previous research done by other scholars has shown that Tomb II is a "two-chamber vaulted tomb found unlooted, with all the grave goods intact, containing the cremated remains of a male" who was ...

One of the urns found. Credit: Archäologisches Museum Hamburg (AMH ... However, as Brandt notes, inside the vessels there’s little more than burned bones; grave goods are rare in this period.