Off the coast of a Greek island sits the Antikythera shipwreck, a 2,000-year-old wreck with a story that inspired an Indiana Jones movie. From its beginnings as an accidental discovery to the recent ...

Workers digging a pipeline in Argentina found the flattened skull of an ancient toddler, raising questions about its ...

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...

To modern eyes, much of Pompeii’s erotic art might look like ancient pornography. But to the Romans, these images weren’t ...

How long will our democracy last? Stable governments tend to live a century, as wealth accumulates and makes its way from ...

A billionaire has unveiled a private collection of ancient Egyptian vases he believes could rewrite history. The artifacts are 10 times more precise than vases carved using modern machinery.

Elephantine, a town at Egypt's southern frontier near modern-day Aswan, provides a unique window into the urban life of some ...

What does the Bible say about the origin of the ancient Greeks? The answer can be found by examining the Bible’s Table of ...

She was one of ancient Egypt's most successful rulers, a rare female pharaoh who preceded Cleopatra by 1,500 years, but Queen ...

The detailed analysis of the 'Dragon Man' skull, which is estimated to be at least 146,000 years old, has led scientists to propose that this ancient human group might be our closest extinct relatives ...

Isabel Chand, 9, writes a story to go with the artwork she created titled 'Crazy Lake at Sunset' Thursday during the Summer Scholars program at Ferguson High School in Loveland.