From 400-year-old globes to cosmic funeral shrouds, how the Osher Map Library in Maine shows people that maps aren't just for ...

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

A 2,000-year-old Chinese astronomical record describes the death of a “Man from Heaven” at the exact moment the New Testament ...

If authentic, these codices would represent one of the most significant archaeological discoveries related to Christianity's formative years. However, their unusual appearance and controversial ...

Turkey is a place rich in history and beauty, dotted with millennia-old cities, many of which originated from ancient Greek ...

The Amarna Letters contain records of ancient lords and rulers seeking to establish diplomatic ties with Egyptian pharaohs.

Thucydides’s account, History of the Peloponnesian War, is considered a classic, as well as being one of the earliest known ...

The ancient world was probably filled with magicians using science only a few understood, but the works of one man have ...

The 1,800-year-old Ketton mosaic discovered at England's Rutland villa features a rare retelling of the Trojan War myth not ...

What did that feel like for him?” Boddice asked. I stared for a few seconds while Boddice smiled encouragingly, as if he’d ...

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

At the crossroads of ancient history and modernity, a project has been completed in Tashkent that is being described by some ...