The world's oldest known Christian Bible goes online Monday -- but the 1,600-year-old text doesn't match the one you'll find in churches today. Discovered in a monastery in the Sinai desert in Egypt ...

On Sept. 27, 1822, French philologist Jean-François Champollion announced that he had deciphered ancient Egyptian ...

The horned toad is actually a lizard, an 8-inch-long reptile with bony spikes on its head. It is a survivor, the subject of colorful stories. It can shoot blood from its eyes. Its image is painted on ...

There are historical reasons to explain the ubiquitous superstition of tossing a pinch of salt over our shoulder when we ...

But history is always contentious and views of it change with the times. Markers in Southern states commemorating Civil War ...

Archaeologists recently found an ancient copper workshop in the Sinai region of Egypt – the land tied to Moses and the Book of Exodus.

There’s blood everywhere Lo, the River is blood.” These more ancient words are not as direct. To be read out of the Ipuwer Papyrus, this haunting line has engendered scholarly dispute and religious ...

After hundreds of years of trying, experts have finally managed to read a series of iconic, ancient scrolls – with a little ...

Travel writer Hussain journeys across the Mediterranean to uncover the ways in which Islam has been integral to European history and culture for more than a thousand years. “One of the current ...

South African batter Matthew Breetzke continued his dream run in ODI cricket, becoming the first player to register scores of fifty-plus in each of his first five ODIs. Breetzke accomplished this feat ...

The settlement is the largest payout in the history of U.S. copyright cases and could lead more A.I. companies to pay rights holders for use of their works. By Cade Metz Reporting from San Francisco ...

Eric Foner’s essay collection “Our Fragile Freedoms” demonstrates how our understanding of the past can deepen and grow more sophisticated over time. These are fraught times for U.S. history — certain ...