Teachers at nine high schools in northeastern Australia discovered days before an ancient history exam that they had ...

A team of researchers at The University of New Mexico has uncovered how a peculiar, prehistoric plant might unlock new ways ...

Mesopotamians, the ancient inhabitants of the land between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, are credited for many firsts in ...

Ancient Greek kings used war elephants from Alexander to the Seleucids, shaping battles and empire-building across the Hellenistic world.

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

The Falls of the Ohio, an area important to Louisville's history, was preserved in the 1990s with the opening of a state park ...

They can be cold and ominous, and can feel like you're exploring an entirely different world or some far-off planet. While ...

Some of the recent advances in the quest to catch a whiff of history are featured in the new book Scents of Arabia: ...

The seal is thought to be from the same time period when Assyria conquered Judah and made it a vassal state required to pay the Assyrian king.

Plague, leprosy, smallpox and other diseases didn't jump from animals to humans when we thought. Ancient DNA is revealing ...

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