Two altars in an ancient shrine in Israel have been revealing their secrets. Material on the altars of the shrine, which was originally at Tel Arad in the Beersheba Valley, was found to include ...

Researchers have discovered traces of cannabis and frankincense at an ancient shrine located in what is now Israel, arguing that the substances may have been used in hallucinogenic cult ritual ...

A barely legible clue — the name “Simon” carved in Greek letters — beckoned from high up on the weather-beaten facade of an ancient burial monument. Their curiosity piqued, two Jerusalem scholars ...

Modern archeological methods—including electrical soil probes and carbon 14 dating—are stripping bit by bit the ancient mystery from Stonehenge, the great megalithic monument on Britain’s Salisbury ...

While cannabis has only recently become legalized in many areas of the world, it’s been with us for thousands of years. Remnants of cannabis and hemp have been identified by archaeologists, ...

Archaeologists in Pakistan have unearthed an extremely rare hoard of copper coins, thought to be more than 2,000 years old, from the ruins of a Buddhist shrine built at the even more ancient site of ...