In school, history often comes packaged in tidy chapters and predictable timelines, but let’s be honest, real history is anything but neat. It’s messy, dramatic, filled with surprises, and often way ...

When it comes to ancient Egypt, archaeologists never know what they might find – and visitors are bound to be dazzled by the displays in the recently opened Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo. In recent ...

Beneath the hills of Gyeongsan, in southeastern South Korea, archaeologists have spent more than four decades excavating a ...

Five theatrical masks discovered at an ancient Turkish site are dated to the time of the Roman Empire. The masks were found alongside a 5,000-seat theater built by the Romans in the first century C.E.

A new analysis of classical medical texts suggests dementia was extremely rare in Ancient Greece and Rome 2,000 to 2,500 years ago.

Pushing back the domestication timeline by 5,000 years via ancient DNA, a new study suggests that dogs lived with humans ...

Archaeologists have discovered a surprising field of ancient shipwrecks underwater near an ancient Greek city in Libya.

It might sometimes feel hard to believe when you're looking at a Chihuahua in a cushy dog bed or a golden retriever in a yellow raincoat and boots, but domestic dogs - yes, all domestic dogs - are the ...