"It basically transformed our entire understanding of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics and thus the history." ...

A story we first told you about went viral around the world. And now we have found the answer as to how that ancient Roman grave marker got into the back yard garden of a shotgun in the Riverbend area ...

An exceptionally preserved coffin, which was discovered after it fell off a cliff near the coast of Poland, was hiding more ...

Traces of opium found inside an ancient alabaster vase suggest drug use was common in ancient Egypt, not rare or accidental. The discovery raises the possibility that King Tut’s famous jars once held ...

In Acient Greece, thousands journeyed down the Sacred Way to reach Eleusis and undergo initiation into the Eleusinian ...

For almost 500 years, historians have been debating what actually caused the deaths of two representatives of one of the most influential Renaissance families, the Medici. Some believed that they were ...

More than a century after it was first uncovered, the Phaistos Disc continues to baffle archaeologists and historians alike. The ancient clay object from Crete has long been regarded as one of ...

In 1976, during the excavation of a subway extension in Toronto, a city worker discovered unusual looking antlers with "thick, horizontal beams." Experts named it Torontoceros hypogaeus, meaning ...

There’s a troubling mystery at the heart of the most widely accepted theory of how complex organisms first evolved on Earth. Eukaryotes are organisms which have a true, membrane-bound nucleus ...

Mystery solved: How an ancient Roman tombstone ended up behind a shotgun house in New Orleans A story we first told you about went viral around the world. And now we have found the answer as to how ...