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, ...

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 ...

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

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

DNA recovered from 1,000-year-old dried feces indicates that intestinal infections from pinworm or Shingella may have plagued ...

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

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

Long before Halloween monsters, ancient Greece feared their own dead. Burials and even stone-weighted graves kept restless ...

Australia’s First Peoples may or may not have hunted the continent’s megafauna to extinction, but they definitely collected ...