Mount Vesuvius' eruption preserved the Herculaneum scrolls beneath a blanket of ash. Two millennia later, X-ray scans show ...

In the ruins of the ancient Assyrian metropolis Nineveh, in modern Iraq, researchers have unearthed a rare artifact: a ...

Scientists have found new evidence for how our fossil human relatives in South Africa may have used their hands. Researchers investigated variation in finger bone morphology to determine that South ...

Scientists have found new evidence for how our fossil human relatives in South Africa may have used their hands.

The Temple of Hera, home to the predecessor of the Olympic Games, is one of the oldest religious sanctuaries in Greece.

A recent excavation at the Floga site in Parikia, Paros, has brought to light a remarkable Hellenistic-era sculpture workshop ...

Cuneiform tablets from ancient Babylon cover a range of topics, from exorcising ghosts to uncovering the location of Noah’s ...

In Homer’s Odyssey, the episode of the witch Circe is one of the most deliciously intriguing of the epic. She is often ...

Did Odysseus really travel all over the Mediterranean, as commonly believed? This article examines the evidence.

Members of New Mexico’s Picuris Pueblo Tribal Nation have long told stories about having descended from ancient North American ancestors. Genetic evidence now backs up what Picuris people ...

Scientists reveal new details about the 5.3-million-year-old flood, which triggered earthquakes, generated tropical-storm ...