While a bucket list experience for many, Machu Picchu is an expensive journey, so history-focused travelers on a budget ...

The languages still uttered around Europe today can be traced back to the prehistoric migrations of people around 5,200 years ...

Archaeologists have found 188 medieval reliquaries during excavations at a square in Berlin. Some of them still contain human ...

From a Mediterranean shipwreck to a mosaic on display in Washington DC, these are the discoveries that made scholars of the ...

In a paper for Science Advances, environmental biotechnologists at Wuhan University write that their sponge "can remove 98.0 ...

For a long time, scientists believed the first humans to arrive in the Americas soon killed off these giant ground sloths ...

A small silver amulet discovered by archaeologists in Germany could transform our understanding of how Christianity spread ...

A new magnetic survey of the ancient Assyrian capital of Khorsabad has revealed several structures, including a villa, buried ...

The location of the Battle of Granicus, Alexander the Great's first major victory, has been identified by archaeologists.

New research has shed light on how Stonehenge may have served to unify Britain’s early farmers as newcomers from Europe began ...

Galaxy clusters—the big cities of the universe—are home to many giant elliptical galaxies that have completed their growth ...

You can see the St. Louis skyline in the distance, and it’s a surreal experience to stand where ancient leaders once stood, ...