Around four in the morning on March 28, 2017, a security guard called the police from Berlin’s Bode Museum, urging them to ...

A recently published study in PLOS ONE is reshaping scientific understanding of the rise of urban civilization in ancient ...

About 3,500 years ago, in a bend of the Mississippi River in what is now northeastern Louisiana, groups of hunter-gatherers ...

In European culture lies the story of a man whose real life faded into the mists of time, only to be reborn as one of the ...

The image most people have of the Great Wall of China is that of a single, imposing stone line snaking through the mountains.

A meticulous study of the ankle joint of this 4.4-million-year-old ancestor positions this species as a crucial link, bearing both primitive traits for climbing and early adaptations for upright ...

In the heart of the ancient Roman city of Gabii, located just 11 miles east of Rome, archaeologists discovered the remains of a massive stone-lined basin, partly carved directly into the bedrock.

In the 14th century, there was a word whose mere pronunciation provoked terror: plague. Although it was not a pandemic ...

An international research team has managed to reconstruct, with unprecedented detail, the genetic history of the Iberians who inhabited the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula during the Iron Age. The ...

The apparent calm of the turquoise waters of Gan Ha-Shelosha National Park hides, beneath its surface, the architecture of a ...

For centuries, an enigma has remained hidden within the pages of the Dresden Codex, one of the few precious Maya books that ...

The Nahal Mishmar Hoard is an archaeological discovery of more than 400 copper objects from the Chalcolithic period, found in ...