Their symbols, the compass and square, are meant to represent reason and faith. Their lodges, they insist, are temples of moral instruction. But behind the carefully guarded doors of those lodges, a ...

Now, a 3,300-year-old Egyptian text preserved in the British Museum is once again fueling one of the Bible's most controversial debates: were the giants of the Old Testament rooted in real historical ...

Genghis Khan, born Temüjin, forged the largest contiguous land empire in history in the 13th century, an empire that stretched from the Pacific Ocean to Eastern Europe. His military campaigns were ...

Rumi, a Persian poet and Sufi Mystic of the 13th Century, created the discovery of something revolutionary; Rather than searching for ‘Love’ we need to search for the ways we block ourselves from ...

Skateholm’s importance is not only that it is large, but that it preserves a long span of hunter-gatherer life and death. The Swedish History Museum notes the area around the lagoon was used for ...

Dozens of rare, gold-glazed terracotta ornaments have been uncovered at the Ho Dynasty Citadel World Heritage site in Thanh Hoa, Vietnam, in a discovery that researchers say helps pinpoint where the ...

Two hefty Roman lead ingots (nicknamed “lead pigs”) have been declared treasure after being unearthed on grazing land in Ceredigion, west Wales. Dated to around AD 87 from their lettering, the pair ...

The work is being framed as urgent, because modern land use and infrastructure are already cutting into the ancient fields and the geoglyph itself reports Heritage Daily. According to archaeologist ...

Demographically, the Gomolava mass grave is striking. Of 77 individuals, 40 were children aged 1–12, with 11 adolescents and 24 adults; among those sexed, females dominate, and adult men are notably ...

A newly examined Greek inscription uncovered inside Homs’ Great Mosque of al-Nuri is reopening an old argument with big implications: does the mosque sit directly over the long-lost Elagabalus Temple, ...

A new study has revealed that mysterious signs carved onto Paleolithic artifacts up to 40,000 years ago match the information density of the world's earliest known writing system — pushing the deep ...

Archaeologists working at El Caño Archaeological Park in Panama's Coclé province have completed the excavation of a spectacular elite tomb dating to over 1,000 years ago, filled with gold ornaments, ...