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 ...

A decline in the population density led to the eventual collapse of the Classic Maya civilisation, they concluded. This was ...

It was thought that disabled people were looked down upon in the Middle Ages, but a new discovery disputes that belief.

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 ...

As technology marches on, some people get trapped using decades-old software and devices. Here's a look inside the strange, ...

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 ...