Archaeologists have discovered what may be a skull bone from the revered Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama. The bone was hidden inside a model of a stupa, or a Buddhist shrine used for meditation. The ...

In Europe, you’ll find that many of these human skeletons — even long after death — still have something to say. Here’s one of my favorite European memories illustrating how, if you know where to look ...

The first evidence of cannabis discovered in archaeological skeletal remains comes from bones of people buried under a hospital in Milan, Italy, in the 17th century. “Molecules of medicinal plants can ...

There’s a bit of misdirection going on with the Byzantine Crypt at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Unlike the Temple of Dendur, which is a temple, the Crypt isn’t a crypt but a gallery, and though the ...