On Native American Heritage Day, we examine a long-overlooked marvel of ancient engineering that had been tucked away beneath ...

Scientists have long tried to uncover the perilous journey humans took to reach the ancient land mass that now makes up ...

New archaeological evidence is helping rewrite old myths about disabled people in the ancient world.

In Spain, the Cave of the Bats, Albuñol, held a major secret: bowstrings discovered in the 19th century predate those used by ...

Archaeologists often seek to understand ancient cultures by studying images left behind on rock faces. While these images ...

A Europe-focused study published in the journal Science examined 87 ancient and modern cat genomes and found that the ...

Some of the ancient buildings, located along China’s mountaintop rivers, dated back to as far as 2800 B.C.E., with others ...

Wisconsin Historical Society experts identified 16 dugout canoes in Lake Mendota, including the oldest recorded canoe from ...

Herodotus’ Histories reveal shocking funeral customs, from Greek cremations to an Indian tribe that ate their parents.

Scientists have uncovered how ancient Easter Islanders moved massive moai statues. Instead of dragging them flat, the statues ...

Hannibal of Carthage (modern Tunisia), a great military strategist, led elephants through the Alps to defeat Rome.

"Performance is a universal language, and theater is one of the oldest art forms. The human element of comedy comes through ...