Chinese magic mirrors are these mind-boggling artifacts that have been around for centuries. Basically, they're made of ...

In this episode of Depths of History, we explore an 1800s home in Britain, where we uncover relics, coins, and artifacts ...

Archaeologists in Ibiza, Spain have uncovered a rare 2,000-year-old wooden statue of Hercules preserved in a Roman-era refuse ...

“We hadn’t expected to discover a funerary monument of this age and size here,” said Prof. Mathias Pfeil, curator general of ...

An excavation at Oxford University has yielded ancient book clasps, medieval pens and imported fish bones, offering ...

The Zond 1 probe was the second Soviet spacecraft to reach Venus, and the first lander to have been sent there. However, ...

Imagine stumbling upon a piece of genuine history while doing something totally mundane, like cleaning out your garage or ...

It won’t catch any fish, but the discovery of as many as 20,000 silver coins and pieces of jewelry dates back to the early ...

From the Greeks and the Romans to the Ottoman empire, the history of Sardis, Turkey, is one of persistent turnover. But its ...

In Milan, bones that piled under a hospital over a half-century shed light on the health and habits of some of the ...

From the Greeks and the Romans to the Ottoman empire, the history of Sardis, Turkey is one of persistent turnover. But its ...