Newly excavated Egyptian tombs dating back roughly 4,000 years are yielding a cache of rare relics that is reshaping how I ...

Historians have long debated the height of Ancient Greeks, imagining either towering heroes or smaller-than-modern people.

A new study shows that Polynesian rats, not humans, were responsible for the deforestation at Rapa Nui, contrary to popular ...

Earthquake memories, archaeological wanderings, classical references and the layered memory of Anatolia converge in “The ...

Extinct relatives of modern humans, like Neanderthals and Homo erectus, that lived in the Levant around 120,000 years ago, ...

It is one of the greatest enigmas of the Old Kingdom. Following the stunning engineering and organizational feat of the Great Pyramid of Giza, something unexpected happened. Instead of continuing and ...

Everyone knows about Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon, but did you know the U.S. is home to over 130 national monuments just ...

What started as simple lawn maintenance suddenly looked more like a historical excavation. Tools meant for trimming grass ...