Religious maps from the 1300s showing tribal Israel inadvertently became the blueprint for how later mapmakers drew political ...

Many of the world’s most beautiful beach towns started as ancient ports, bustling with trade, sailors, and cultural exchange.

Ancient coffin wood turn out to be climate archives, revealing a long-forgotten wet period that helped power the rise of ...

Historians have long debated the height of Ancient Greeks, imagining either towering heroes or smaller-than-modern people.

The historical and archeological record upends the widespread belief that long-term incarceration belongs to the modern state ...

A group of scientists are studying the Cyclades, an island group in Greece's Aegean Sea, looking for signs of early human ...

Archaeologists working in the Southern Ural Mountains have uncovered an unexpected clue about how an ancient plague once ...

Two weeks after the partial collapse of the tower, a layer of ancient dust still coats the outdoor umbrellas of the Angelino ...

Linguists at Aberystwyth University have launched the first comprehensive dictionary to capture every known word of the Celtic languages spoken in Britain and Ireland between 325 BC and AD 500. The ...

A previously unknown medieval castle has emerged from the Swiss landscape after a researcher studying high-resolution terrain maps identified telltale features of an early fortification near ...

Have you ever walked through a supermarket produce aisle and wondered if something's missing? Modern grocery stores offer a ...

Think you've heard of every vegetable that's ever been grown? Hold that thought.There's an entire forgotten world of crops ...