Researchers at Liverpool John Moores University in the U.K. digitally removed face masks from ancient Colombian mummies ...

Centuries ago, the Nile River split into two and inadvertently created an island—fulfilling a piece of ancient Egyptian ...

Archaeologists have revealed new insights into how the world's first farming villagers formed communities, moved across the ...

Turns out, ancient body art is a lot more common than we once thought—and it's providing historians with new ways of ...

Scientists at MIT have uncovered compelling evidence that ancient sea sponges were Earth's first animals. Chemical fossils ...

The 1,900-year-old grave marker of a Roman sailor named Sextus Congenius Verus had been missing from an Italian museum for ...

Scientists have discovered the DNA of ancient microbes inside of the remains of woolly and steppe mammoths. This microbial DNA, which may be one million years old or more, may be among the oldest DNA ...

Excavations in the Golan Heights have revealed a 1,500-year-old synagogue built of basalt and hewn stone, offering rare ...

A New Orleans couple doing yard work behind their house unexpectedly found a Roman headstone of a solider who died 1,900 ...

Explore the breathtaking mountaintop republic of San Marino with this stunning drone footage. Marvel at the ancient ...

On the borderlands of early civilizations, people who considered one another alien met in moments of trade, warfare or simple human curiosity.

One of London's oldest street markets could be transformed with a new restaurant, roof terrace and central piazza under fresh ...