Excavations in Pompeii revealed that four people, including a child, tried to seek shelter from the eruption of Mount ...

From protein-filled meals to the benefits of lentils and intermittent fasting, the Classical world had strong opinions about ...

Mount Vesuvius' eruption preserved the Herculaneum scrolls beneath a blanket of ash. Two millennia later, X-ray scans show ...

New research from an international group looking at ancient sediment cores in the North Atlantic has for the first time shown ...

Paleontologists have discovered fossils of a 506 million-year-old tiny three-eyed predator nicknamed the “sea moth,” ...

Unraided crypts are hard to come by. And yet in 1968, soldiers stumbled upon the imperial family tombs of a Han dynasty ...

Ancient ebony figures discovered in a necropolis in Israel are stylistically African, but made of Asian wood and surfaced ...

Well before the Europeans arrived, the indigenous people of North America raised cities that rivaled those an ocean away.

Fifty-six million years ago, during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), global temperatures rose by more than 5°C ...

Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal on a slab of sandstone ...

This is the first time that major deities have been found depicted on a relief from an ancient Assyrian palace.

A 1,000 year-old human skeleton which was buried sitting cross-legged in India has been moved to a museum six years after it ...