Thousands of years before modern history began, advanced civilisations rose along the Nile—and some vanished without a trace. What they left behind still baffles archaeologists today ...

For years, the most beloved part of my personal library was my two-volume set of the Oxford English Dictionary (“the OED,” to ...

New research reveals the Moon's colossal South Pole-Aitken basin was formed by an asteroid striking from the north, not the ...

An international team of researchers has used artificial intelligence to analyse the first nine books of the Hebrew Bible, ...

A bust stolen from Jim Morrison’s gravesite in Paris was found in May. But many questions linger about who took it and why.

In the heart of Brunoy, in Essonne, stand the mysterious Pierres Frittes, ancient Neolithic menhirs whose origins still ...

New research recently publishedconfirms the remains of the last living female great auk resides in Cincinnati. Researchers ...

Most comprehensive study of the temple complex and its surrounding land and water scapes identifies the earliest period of ...

A New Orleans couple unearthed a 2,000-year-old Roman marble tablet in their garden, leading the FBI and history experts to ...

Experts have posed a new theory about how Alexander the Great died after ancient Greece determined he was a 'god.' ...

From desert carvings to underwater ruins, these ancient structures are so advanced that experts still can’t agree on what ...