Joshua Hammer takes a hugely enjoyable look at three rivals who competed to decipher the world’s oldest writing ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered multistory buildings from a lost Egyptian city in the Nile Delta, fostering new insights into urban life in antiquity. The ruins of the city – known in ancient times ...

Brown: Guardians is an appropriate name for those serving at US Space Force Cape Cod. 'These people are standing guard for us.' ...

Featuring bridges over flowing streams and antique-looking architecture, ancient towns and cities have been cultural tourist ...

For ancient Greeks, every waterway was protected by nymphs. They were invariably ageless young girls who existed even before ...

The story of the human race is a story of technology. One of our ancestors created fire and passed that knowledge along to ...

The oldest known Egyptian DNA sample, from a man who lived between 4,500 to 4,800 years ago, offers new insights into the ...

The largest collection of Roman coins found in Spain is now on exhibit. The museum display features 50,000 ancient coins from the third and fourth centuries A.D.

Rhapsodes were the master storytellers of Ancient Greece who memorized and performed thousands of lines of Homer's works.

Researchers said their findings suggest husbands relocated to the wife's household upon marriage – suggesting a female ...

The Mayan city of Caracol has been researched for decades, but archaeologists only recently found a tomb of one of the city's ...

Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived ...