Experts believe the site where the coins, which date back 2,500 years, were found could have once been a seasonal market.

Fareed talks to historian William Dalrymple, author of a new book about the debt the world owes to ancient India, which was ...

Some believe ancient structures once harnessed plasma energy to generate storms and lightning. The evidence is strange, the ...

Obsidian from the island of Milos, found in Franchthi Cave, shows seafaring in Greece began over 11,000 years ago in the ...

From the cuneiform writing of Euphrates and Tigris to the pyramids along the Nile, and from the urban grids of the Indus to ...

New DNA evidence from ancient burial sites reveals how early Chinese civilization developed through migration, farming, and ...

The ancient copper industry in the Sultanate of Oman serves as compelling evidence of an advanced civilization that evolved ...

Battles over Columbus Day aren’t really about Christopher Columbus at all — they’re about whether America should exist.

Battles over Columbus Day aren't really about Christopher Columbus at all -- they're about whether America should exist.

Battles over Columbus Day aren’t really about Christopher Columbus at all—they’re about whether America should exist.

On Sept. 27, 1822, French philologist Jean-François Champollion announced that he had deciphered ancient Egyptian ...

Skeletal remains of "Zimapán man" found with gut bacteria revealing lost microbes and healthier, natural diets before modern ...