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

Teachers at nine high schools in northeastern Australia discovered days before an ancient history exam that they had ...

A team of researchers at The University of New Mexico has uncovered how a peculiar, prehistoric plant might unlock new ways ...

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

Ghosts stories appear in several surviving texts from ancient Rome. What do they reveal about the people who told them?

Tombs scattered across China, built between the 4,000-year old Xia Dynasty and the modern era, reflect the political and ...

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

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

Egypt is inaugurating the Grand Egyptian Museum, the world's largest museum dedicated to its ancient civilization.

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

BJP MP Khandelwal also requested the Centre to install statues of the Pandavas in the capital and also rename the airport and ...

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