Teachers at nine high schools in northeastern Australia discovered days before an ancient history exam that they had ...

A team of researchers at The University of New Mexico has uncovered how a peculiar, prehistoric plant might unlock new ways ...

The Falls of the Ohio, an area important to Louisville's history, was preserved in the 1990s with the opening of a state park ...

Some of the recent advances in the quest to catch a whiff of history are featured in the new book Scents of Arabia: ...

Ghosts stories appear in several surviving texts from ancient Rome. What do they reveal about the people who told them?

High school students were exempted from their final history exam after teachers spent a year teaching them about the wrong ...

Plague, leprosy, smallpox and other diseases didn't jump from animals to humans when we thought. Ancient DNA is revealing ...

Tombs scattered across China, built between the 4,000-year old Xia Dynasty and the modern era, reflect the political and ...

New research shows that the rise of Sumer was deeply tied to the tidal and sedimentary dynamics of ancient Mesopotamia. Early ...

In an excerpt from his new book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean explores a weird and wild '90s experiment to replicate ancient ...

“India has had very long, ancient, rich and vibrant culture and traditions that start from around 5000 BC,” said Sanjeev ...

For the past half century, Egyptologists saw the rapid abandonment of Akhetaten as a sign of plague. Now that theory is being ...