June 3, 1941 was the day the village of Kandanos on Crete was burned to the ground and all 180 residents massacred by Nazi ...

No, modern humans weren’t the first to craft pointed weapons using bones. Neanderthals were already doing it thousands of ...

Travel through time to explore the most powerful weapons of each century, from ancient war hammers to modern nuclear arms.

Ancient Greeks used a primitive type of lifting machine to move heavy stones before they began using cranes 2,500 years ago.

About 20,000 years ago, when Europe was frozen in the final chill of the Ice Age, mysterious giants periodically washed up on the Atlantic shores of modern northern Spain and southwestern France.

Sanskrit was seen as the language of divinity, thus the main current of Sanskrit knowledge tended to be conservative, ...

These spectacular stone structures represent some of the most significant depictions of the religious and funerary practices of an ancient society that drew on both its Greek and Persian heritage.