Here is how a consultation worked. Anyone with a question (whether to travel, close a purchase, go to court, or wait for a ...

Cut a mammoth tusk across and a pattern appears that nobody drew. Rings like those of a tree trunk mark how the ivory grew, ...

Around 400 BC, Europe was changing, though not in a single direction. Athens had just lost the Peloponnesian War (404 BC), ...

Around 400 BC, Europe was changing, though not in a single direction. Athens had just lost the Peloponnesian War (404 BC), and Roman tradition says the Gauls would sack Rome around 390 BC. Farther ...

The newly discovered crocodile, Herugavialis cairensis, lived in the shallow marine environments that covered large parts of Egypt 50 million years ago. Credit: Adel Lee A skull pulled from the Sphinx ...

The so called cenotaph or temple of Trajan may be the place where his funeral pyre stood. Credit: Philipp Pilhofer / Wikimedia Commons A team from Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University spent two weeks ...

Sent east as a diplomatic gift by Augustus in 20 BC, a Roman slave named Musa became the favourite wife of the Parthian king and, years later, co-ruler alongside her son. Some suggest she went to ...

Among the stone tools that early humans left beside a lake in northern Israel, archaeologists found something far bigger: the molar of an elephant, about 8 inches (20 cm) tall and 3 inches (8 cm) wide ...

Near Parabita, a town in the province of Lecce, in the heel of Italy's boot (the region of Apulia, also spelled Puglia), a limestone cave holds a piece of Ice Age history. Two small bone figurines ...

A bronze sword that spent more than three thousand years underwater has come out of an Italian lake with its edge still sharp. Underwater archaeologists from the Soprintendenza of Viterbo (the state ...

Any pediatrician has seen it: a baby who spends so many hours lying on their back that one side of the head ends up flat. The ...