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

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

What did people use instead of toilet paper? Seashells, tapestries, wooden sticks and more. Secret Service finds 17 'skimming ...

Cliff-rappelling scientists uncovered a crossbow bolt, part of a slingshot and 25 shoes in ancient vulture nesting sites ...

The Falls of the Ohio, an area important to Louisville's history, was preserved in the 1990s with the opening of a state park ...

Recent archaeological discoveries across the Americas are reshaping our understanding of ancient history. At the forefront is ...

Scientists say they have found a way to test ancient human remains for hormones linked with pregnancy, a breakthrough that ...

Humans and our ancestors have been exposed to lead for 2 million years, but the toxic metal may have actually helped our ...

Instead, people commonly slept in two shifts each night, often called a “first sleep” and “second sleep.” Each of these sleeps lasted several hours, separated by a gap of wakefulness for an hour or ...

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

Chennai: Students from the department of ancient history and archaeology, University of Madras, unearthed stone tools that may belong to the Middle Pa.

From prehistoric burials to overcrowded Victorian churchyards, this is what our treatment of the dead throughout history says about the living ...