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

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

Cliff-rappelling scientists uncovered a crossbow bolt, part of a slingshot and 25 shoes in ancient vulture nesting sites ...

What did people use instead of toilet paper? Seashells, tapestries, wooden sticks and more. Secret Service finds 17 'skimming ...

Recent archaeological discoveries across the Americas are reshaping our understanding of ancient history. At the forefront is ...

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

Scientists say they have found a way to test ancient human remains for hormones linked with pregnancy, a breakthrough that ...

Long before there were maps or names for continents, a handful of people stood at the edge of the world. Picture them on a ...

Instead, people commonly slept in two shifts each night, often called a “first sleep” and “second sleep.” Each of these sleeps lasted several hours, separated by a gap of wakefulness for an hour or ...

From prehistoric burials to overcrowded Victorian churchyards, this is what our treatment of the dead throughout history says about the living ...

For millennia, ancient civilizations have left us clues about the importance of living in harmony with nature. Despite the warnings etched in stone tablets, whispered through sacred texts, and painted ...

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