Well before the Europeans arrived, the indigenous people of North America raised cities that rivaled those an ocean away.

People buried in "hanging coffins" thousands of years ago in China and Southeast Asia have finally been identified through ...

In ancient Athens, the agora was a public forum where citizens could gather to deliberate, disagree and decide together. It ...

Today the deserts of the Arabian peninsula are inhospitable - but 100,000 years ago the area was full of animals and ancient ...

Scientists in Spain have discovered ancient shells which they believe could be among the oldest known musical instruments in ...

Fencing may be one of the Olympics' oldest events, but three-time Olympian Miles Chamley-Watson says it urgently needs a ...

Scientists have long tried to uncover the perilous journey humans took to reach the ancient land mass that now makes up ...

Some of the ancient buildings, located along China’s mountaintop rivers, dated back to as far as 2800 B.C.E., with others ...

In Spain, the Cave of the Bats, Albuñol, held a major secret: bowstrings discovered in the 19th century predate those used by ...

A monastery overlooking the Mediterranean will be one of the stops on Pope Leo XIV’s three-day visit to Lebanon, a country of ...

The mathematician, who liked to annoy friends with improvised brainteasers, thought for a moment or two, then raised a glass ...

On Native American Heritage Day, we examine a long-overlooked marvel of ancient engineering that had been tucked away beneath ...