Ancient Roman ideas of privacy differed radically from our own, and their communal toilets reveal a mindset almost impossible ...

High in the Ecuadorian Andes, where dense clouds settle over terraced fields and villages stitched into the mountainsides, a ...

The discovery of the settlements over the years has led to a new understanding of the Asia Minor and Anatolia regions.

Researchers uncovered rare azurite traces on a Final Paleolithic artifact, overturning assumptions that early Europeans used ...

By Karen Taylor The famed silk roads, which connected ancient China to the rest of the world, were not so named until many ...

Professor Kenichi Yano of Ritsumeikan University emphasized the discovery's unique significance: ...

On Monday 8 December, archaeologists discovered the wreck of a 2,000-year-old ancient Egyptian pleasure boat off the coast of ...

The chance rediscovery of the ancient Chinese Sanxingdui civilization is legendary in and of itself. In 1929, an unsuspecting peasant in Sichuan province stumbled upon a cache of jade relics while ...

A Seattle meme artist, Sunday Nobody, sinks a $25,000 Handsome Squidward statue into the Mediterranean Sea to prank future ...

Step into the birthplace of Western civilization with this immersive virtual tour of the Acropolis of Athens. Explore its ...

Scientists excavating the ruins of Pompeii have discovered a construction site left frozen in time by the eruption of Italy's ...

The tradition of leaving cookies and milk for Santa Claus has evolved from ancient Norse customs and early welcoming rituals.