Artifacts

Recent 3D scans of the Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s shipwreck, offer a detailed glimpse into its history and artifacts. Discovered in 2022, these images reveal remarkably preserved elements of the ship, including dishes and a boot, highlighting the crew's journey and survival after becoming trapped in ice. A documentary premiering on 1 Nove...

The US has handed over to India 297 antiquities during the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. These antiquities were smuggled out of the country and were recovered.

Recent research led by forensic anthropologist Alexandra L. Morton-Hayward from the University of Oxford has unveiled that human brains can endure preservation for up to 12,000 years. This groundbreaking study analysed over 4,400 preserved brains from various archaeological sites, revealing that brains can remain intact far longer than previously a...

Archaeologists have uncovered the skeletons of a man and a woman in Pompeii, offering new insights into the tragic events of the city's destruction during the Mount Vesuvius eruption in A.D. 79. The skeletons were found in a small room, with the woman's remains discovered near valuable items including gold coins and a pair of gold-and-pearl earring...

Archaeologists have made a significant discovery in Lake Bolsena, central Italy — a 3,000-year-old clay figurine — believed to represent an ancient goddess. This artifact was found submerged in the volcanic lake, and it likely belongs to an early Iron Age village from around the 10th or 9th century BC. The figurine measures approximately 15 cm...

During a work trip to Mexico, Dozier noticed artifacts at the Museum of Anthropology resembling the $3.99 vase she bought.

Anthropic launched the first entrant in the Claude 3.5 large language model (LLM) family, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, on Friday. The new release comes just three months after the AI firm launched the Claude 3 family of artificial intelligence (AI) models. As per the company, the latest AI model can outperform Claude 3 Opus, the most capable model from the p...

Yahoo News app is getting a significant revamp that will bring several new artificial intelligence (AI) features to the news reporting and aggregation platform. The company highlighted that the new app’s AI capabilities come from the now-defunct AI news app Artifact. Yahoo acquired the platform in April 2024, and it has now integrated its archite...

Archaeologists discovered that two artifacts from the Bronze Age Treasure of Villena in Spain were made from meteoritic iron, indicating advanced metalworking techniques.

Leandro Rivera says he chanced upon the cave in Peru's remote Nazca region that contained hundreds of pre-Hispanic artifacts - including human bodies with elongated heads and what appeared to be only three fingers on each hand.

Yahoo said on Tuesday it had acquired Instagram co-founders' AI-driven news platform, Artifact, and will incorporate its technology across the US web services provider's news and other sites.

A London court on Tuesday ordered a former curator at the British Museum accused of stealing hundreds of artefacts to provide the museum with a list of all items he is suspected of taking and to return those still in his possession.

When a family in Norway decided to employ a metal detector to search their yard for a lost earring, they ended up uncovering far more than they had anticipated.

The rare artifact is a seated Buddha with a halo, roughly 4 feet tall, created during Japan's Edo Period (1603-1867).

The US government is opposing a scheduled mission aimed at retrieving historically significant items from the Titanic.

Recent 3D scans of the Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s shipwreck, offer a detailed glimpse into its history and artifacts. Discovered in 2022, these images reveal remarkably preserved elements of the ship, including dishes and a boot, highlighting the crew's journey and survival after becoming trapped in ice. A documentary premiering on 1 Nove...

The US has handed over to India 297 antiquities during the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. These antiquities were smuggled out of the country and were recovered.

Recent research led by forensic anthropologist Alexandra L. Morton-Hayward from the University of Oxford has unveiled that human brains can endure preservation for up to 12,000 years. This groundbreaking study analysed over 4,400 preserved brains from various archaeological sites, revealing that brains can remain intact far longer than previously a...

Archaeologists have uncovered the skeletons of a man and a woman in Pompeii, offering new insights into the tragic events of the city's destruction during the Mount Vesuvius eruption in A.D. 79. The skeletons were found in a small room, with the woman's remains discovered near valuable items including gold coins and a pair of gold-and-pearl earring...

Archaeologists have made a significant discovery in Lake Bolsena, central Italy — a 3,000-year-old clay figurine — believed to represent an ancient goddess. This artifact was found submerged in the volcanic lake, and it likely belongs to an early Iron Age village from around the 10th or 9th century BC. The figurine measures approximately 15 cm...

During a work trip to Mexico, Dozier noticed artifacts at the Museum of Anthropology resembling the $3.99 vase she bought.

Anthropic launched the first entrant in the Claude 3.5 large language model (LLM) family, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, on Friday. The new release comes just three months after the AI firm launched the Claude 3 family of artificial intelligence (AI) models. As per the company, the latest AI model can outperform Claude 3 Opus, the most capable model from the p...

Yahoo News app is getting a significant revamp that will bring several new artificial intelligence (AI) features to the news reporting and aggregation platform. The company highlighted that the new app’s AI capabilities come from the now-defunct AI news app Artifact. Yahoo acquired the platform in April 2024, and it has now integrated its archite...

Archaeologists discovered that two artifacts from the Bronze Age Treasure of Villena in Spain were made from meteoritic iron, indicating advanced metalworking techniques.

Leandro Rivera says he chanced upon the cave in Peru's remote Nazca region that contained hundreds of pre-Hispanic artifacts - including human bodies with elongated heads and what appeared to be only three fingers on each hand.

Yahoo said on Tuesday it had acquired Instagram co-founders' AI-driven news platform, Artifact, and will incorporate its technology across the US web services provider's news and other sites.

A London court on Tuesday ordered a former curator at the British Museum accused of stealing hundreds of artefacts to provide the museum with a list of all items he is suspected of taking and to return those still in his possession.

When a family in Norway decided to employ a metal detector to search their yard for a lost earring, they ended up uncovering far more than they had anticipated.

The rare artifact is a seated Buddha with a halo, roughly 4 feet tall, created during Japan's Edo Period (1603-1867).

The US government is opposing a scheduled mission aimed at retrieving historically significant items from the Titanic.