Clues from a digital reconstruction of a lavish ancient home are changing how researchers understand Pompeii’s elite.

Benin City has grown from the historic Kingdom of Benin into a vibrant metropolis with the new Museum of West African Art.

A new radiocarbon study has clarified the timing of the colossal Thera eruption, placing it before Egypt’s New Kingdom.

"Some of our ancestors were very skilled observers." A team of international researchers say they've uncovered new data on ...

Plant species mentioned in texts from the past 800 years hint the wooded grasslands of western India have been there since ...

The return of Lake Manly to Death Valley, known commonly as the driest place in North America, highlights historic levels of ...

Cornwall has several stone circles, and as many as 800 sit across the United Kingdom, remnants of prehistoric people who ...

The Indus Valley civilization, located in present-day Pakistan and India, went through four periods of intense drought, which ...

There is an art to rivalry. Mastering its rules has, since ancient times, shaped cultural history over millennia.

In the Ecuadorian Andes, young Otavalo Indigenous people are using anime to inspire pride in their culture and language.

The royal symbol on the newly discovered figurines solves a long-standing mystery by identifying who was buried in the ...

Around 120 million years ago, a bird swallowed over 800 tiny stones and choked to death as a result. Paleontologists aren’t ...