Around four in the morning on March 28, 2017, a security guard called the police from Berlin’s Bode Museum, urging them to ...

A recently published study in PLOS ONE is reshaping scientific understanding of the rise of urban civilization in ancient ...

About 3,500 years ago, in a bend of the Mississippi River in what is now northeastern Louisiana, groups of hunter-gatherers ...

In European culture lies the story of a man whose real life faded into the mists of time, only to be reborn as one of the ...

The image most people have of the Great Wall of China is that of a single, imposing stone line snaking through the mountains.

In the 14th century, there was a word whose mere pronunciation provoked terror: plague. Although it was not a pandemic ...

A team of researchers from Yale University has scientifically identified the contents of a valuable Egyptian alabaster vessel inscribed with the name of the Persian king Xerxes I, who died in 465 BCE.

The apparent calm of the turquoise waters of Gan Ha-Shelosha National Park hides, beneath its surface, the architecture of a ...

For centuries, an enigma has remained hidden within the pages of the Dresden Codex, one of the few precious Maya books that ...

An international research team has managed to reconstruct, with unprecedented detail, the genetic history of the Iberians who inhabited the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula during the Iron Age. The ...

For about 4,500 years, the Great Pyramid of Giza has stood as a testament to human ingenuity. Yet, its method of construction ...