The return of Lake Manly to Death Valley, known commonly as the driest place in North America, highlights historic levels of ...

Clues from a digital reconstruction of a lavish ancient home are changing how researchers understand Pompeii’s elite.

The Indus Valley civilization, located in present-day Pakistan and India, went through four periods of intense drought, which ...

A genetic study of 80 skulls found at a Stone Age city in China has revealed that the sacrificed people were mostly men, in ...

Archaeologists in Hungary have uncovered a 1,300-year-old warrior’s tomb containing one of only about 80 known Avar sabers, a ...

Benin City has grown from the historic Kingdom of Benin into a vibrant metropolis with the new Museum of West African Art.

There were 22 gold objects, in addition to other impressive grave goods, buried with the deceased, indicating they were ...

While slaves in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii were considered no more than "speaking tools", some received better food ...

Cornwall has several stone circles, and as many as 800 sit across the United Kingdom, remnants of prehistoric people who ...

The extinct rhinoceros, described in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, is the northernmost rhino known to have ever ...

"Some of our ancestors were very skilled observers." A team of international researchers say they've uncovered new data on ...

Olive oil is the Swiss army knife of foodstuffs. It can dress salads, sauté vegetables, even grease squeaky hinges. And for ...