Ancient DNA from people buried up to 1,600 years ago in Honduras have revealed clues to the rise and fall of the Maya.

Two recently discovered ancient gold rings set with garnets reveal how Greek trends and customs became part of life in ...

Emperor Qin Shi Huang of the Qin dynasty was the first emperor of ancient China and ruled from 221 B.C. to 210 B.C. He's most ...

Footprints found in New Mexico were dated to roughly 23,000 years old - about 10,000 years before humans were thought to be ...

In the early Bronze Age, a piece of bread was buried beneath the threshold of a newly built house in what is today central ...

In a groundbreaking study published in Nature Communications, a team of researchers has uncovered the earliest known evidence ...

A downpour brought the wild, vain hope of an end to a crippling drought as the bearers of ancient knowledge walked by, aiming ...

UCC graduate, Glenn Gibney, tells Sarah Horgan about his work over the last decade to piece together the stories of people's lives from centuries ago through the analysis of their bones ...

From his roof, Sidi Mohamed Lemine Sidiya scans the mediaeval town of Oualata, a treasure that is disappearing under the ...

Ostracism is an ancient democratic tradition practiced in Athens that offers an alternative approach of imprisoning political rivals ...

Historian Victor Davis Hanson chronicles the parallels between empires of the past and America today on walls and border ...