We've feasted on them, built economies around them and in some places nearly erased them from our coasts. Today, 85% of the ...

CAIRO (AP) — In an extravaganza of pharaonic imagery with a drone light show depicting ancient gods and pyramids in the sky, Egypt on Saturday inaugurated its long-delayed Grand Egyptian Museum, a ...

After the collapse of the Chalcolithic culture around 3500 BCE, people in Jordan’s Murayghat transformed their way of life, shifting from domestic settlements to ritual landscapes filled with dolmens, ...

Aoife Sutton-Butler talks with PEOPLE about her job as a cemetery registrar and why she doesn't see it as 'morbid.' ...

The finding may allow archaeologists to determine whether a woman was pregnant or had recently given birth at the time of her ...

Archaeologists have studied how astronauts use the International Space Station to improve its potential future successors.

The Garden Site (3PU1132) is a historical site located on the campus of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, just south ...

From the Greeks and the Romans to the Ottoman empire, the history of Sardis, Turkey, is one of persistent turnover. But its ...

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

(THE CONVERSATION) In early November 1927, the front pages of newspapers all over France featured photographs not of the usual politicians, aviators or sporting events, but of a group of ...

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

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