A plant used by the ancient Greeks for medicine, food and even contraception, was one of the most sought-after goods in the ...

Palaeontologists used ancient molecules to identify a cranium found near Harbin in northeastern China as belonging to the ...

This was the office of Salem Abdullah, archaeological director of the ancient city of Assur, which once thrived on this rock as the capital of the Assyrian Empire. Abdullah, who was raised in a ...

Unearthed in Egypt's Tarkhan Cemetery, the Tarkhan Dress, dating back to 3482-3102 BC, stands as the oldest known tailored ...

Winegard writes in his sprawling new book, “The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator ... The disease killed the ancient Greeks and Romans—as well as the peoples who tried ...

Sun Chariot: An ornate Bronze Age treasure that may have featured in an ancient Nordic religious ceremony What it tells us about the past: More than five millennia ago, an Egyptian weaver created a ...

A shipwreck that has been part of Vancouver Island’s history for more than a century is a charred skeleton after a fire this ...

While the archaeological site draws scores of visitors to Peru annually, here are 10 lesser known secrets hidden beneath its layers of history ... 50 miles west of the ancient Incan ruins.