A $2.3 million restoration is using advanced laser technology to clean and preserve the 1,840-year-old Rome’s Column of ...

Scientists discover Bronze Age plague DNA in 4,000-year-old sheep remains, shedding light on how ancient diseases spread ...

Along a nine-mile stretch of river between two waterfalls in the Australian rainforest lives a tiny fish that’s been there for millions of years, hiding between rocks along the riverbank by day and ...

In ancient Judaism and early Christianity, angels were portrayed as powerful beings who guarded the Garden of Eden, ...

Record rainfall transforms Death Valley's Badwater Basin into a rare shallow lake after months of heavy storms hit the ...

History is filled with powerful empires that seemed invincible until they weren't. Between roughly 1250 and 1150 BCE, major ...

The suggestion that ancient Greeks reached America before Columbus may seem far-fetched, but certain researchers think ...

Would a smear of tar be enough to unlocked a new version of maritime history in Southern Europe? Archaeologists think so.

Long before whales and sharks, enormous marine reptiles dominated the oceans with unmatched power. Scientists have ...

An archaeological team has uncovered for the first time more than half of the temple, long buried under River Nile sediment.

The Greek myth of Danaë and Perseus shaped ancient debates about the virgin birth of Jesus and early Christian identity.

Pharaoh Shoshenq III had been buried in this tomb even though he had already built a larger one elsewhere in city of Tanis.