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Pompeii Opens Permanent Exhibition of 22 Victim Casts From the AD 79 Eruption

Curators present the plaster figures as a dignified, research-led memorial to those who died.

Gold-Laden Elite Tomb Unearthed at Panama’s El Caño Site

Study Finds Medieval Danes With Leprosy or TB Still Received High-Status Burials

Italy Confirms Discovery of Vitruvius’s Long-Sought Basilica in Fano

Fano Excavation Confirms Remains of Vitruvius’s Basilica

Pompeii Baths Went From Foul Wells to Cleaner Aqueducts, With Lead Risks

Leipzig Team Pinpoints Possible Black Death Mass Grave Near Erfurt

Study Pinpoints Suspected Black Death Mass Grave Near Erfurt

Vindolanda Study Detects Giardia in Roman Britain for the First Time

Vindolanda Latrine Study Finds Worms and First Giardia in Roman Britain

Celtic Gold Coins Over 2,000 Years Old Found Near Basel to Go on Display in March

Heavy Wool on Pompeii Victims Found in New Analysis as Eruption-Date Dispute Continues

Libya Reopens Tripoli’s Red Castle Museum for First Time Since 2011

Archaeologists Uncover Longest Continuous Hasmonean City Wall Remains Beneath Jerusalem’s Kishle

Survey Recasts Kazakhstan’s 3,500-Year-Old Semiyarka as a 346-Acre Planned Settlement

Madrid Unveils ‘Real Casa de Campo’ Project to Reopen Casa de los Vargas and Renaissance Garden by 2027

Study Identifies Rediscovered Skeleton as Béla of Macsó, Detailing a Brutal 1272 Assassination

Culloden Excavation Yields 100+ Projectiles, Clarifying the Battle’s Final Movements

Tulsa Launches Largest Excavation Yet at Oaklawn to Identify 1921 Massacre Victims

Rare 13th-Century Hair Tool From Eilean Donan Enters National Museums Scotland Collection