The 1-inch pottery fragment, which is part of a seal that was used to authenticate official documents, was reportedly found ...

Scientists dug into paleofeces for a new study, learning some very intimate details about how long-ago people lived.

In an excerpt from his new book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean explores a weird and wild '90s experiment to replicate ancient ...

It is clear that the sprawling city of Teotihuacan near Mexico City was a major metropolis of the ancient world, but what do ...

New research shows that the rise of Sumer was deeply tied to the tidal and sedimentary dynamics of ancient Mesopotamia. Early ...

These saints from centuries ago still speak urgently with timeless messages on community, knowledge, creativity, ...

Museum, the biggest worldwide dedicated to a single civilization, will exhibit some 50,000 artifacts of pharaohs and Egyptian gods ...

A thrift store in Canada was selling a collection of antique rings and medallions for about 20 US dollars when it learned the jewelry was from ancient times. A thrift shop in Canada called Thrifty ...

The ancient Romans were masters of building and engineering, perhaps most famously represented by the aqueducts.