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

Scientists dug into paleofeces for a new study, learning some very intimate details about how long-ago people lived.

The 1-inch pottery fragment, which is part of a seal that was used to authenticate official documents, was reportedly found ...

It is clear that the sprawling city of Teotihuacan near Mexico City was a major metropolis of the ancient world, but what do ...

At the edge of East Antarctica, where the wind howls through a white emptiness and the air bites harder than steel, ...

These saints from centuries ago still speak urgently with timeless messages on community, knowledge, creativity, ...

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

During her hunt for the Egyptian queen’s lost tomb, National Geographic Explorer Kathleen Martínez uncovered the sunken ...

The ancient Romans were masters of building and engineering, perhaps most famously represented by the aqueducts.