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

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

Some 3,500 years ago, hunter-gatherers began building massive earthwork mounds along the Mississippi River at Poverty Point, ...

Tourists are returning to Vietnam's ancient town of Hoi An as residents clean up mud and debris to reopen the UNESCO-listed ...

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

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

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

The new director of Rome’s Colosseum, has rejected reports that the ancient site will host electronic dance music parties.

The Grand Egyptian Museum, which held its opening ceremony on Saturday, will showcase tomb paintings and other artefacts ...

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

Hyperborea is a mythical land that appears several times in Greek mythology. But was it a real place? And if so, where was it ...

The Gurung people have been conducting honey hunt rituals in the Himalayan cliffs of Nepal for a very long time. The cultural ...