More than a thousand years have passed since their heyday, however, and as humans continue to destroy our environment, ...

Archaeologists from the University of New Hampshire and the University of Vermont have uncovered a fish-trapping facility in ...

Several tombs in the necropolises of Egypt depict figures dancing across the walls and playing instruments. But when ...

The modern city of Luxor, known in the ancient world as Thebes, has one of the largest concentrations of ancient monuments in ...

In 79 CE, Mount Vesuvius erupted in southern Italy, burying the nearby Roman city of Pompeii in scalding stone and ash. The ...

However, not everyone knows that these lands conceal a rich legacy of ancient Turkic culture. Scattered across the region, ...

Ezgi Aslan, 21, said she believed the ancient beauty rituals strengthened the skin itself, more so than modern products.

Aloft over the landscape of Bavaria some 147 million years ago was a pterosaur - an ancient flying reptile - with a wing span ...

To mark the opening of the Colosseum in 80 C.E., the Roman emperor Titus staged a staggering spectacle, flooding the arena ...

Leveraging a unique statistical analysis and applying it to ancient DNA extracted from human skeletal remains, a team of ...

The rare artifact was found during an ongoing excavation project in Hadrianopolis, an ancient city near Karabük, and dated to ...

Gladiator II director Ridley Scott famously does not care about historical accuracy in his films but we had to ask.