The museum dropped a legal effort to block the seizure of the statue by investigators who said the bronze, thought by some to ...

Fossil collectors in Florida have discovered an ancient sinkhole, now at the bottom of a river, which holds the remains of animals rarely seen in the state, including a type of giant armadillo, giant ...

Archaeologists have already found more than 200 tombs—and they think that might be just the tip of the iceberg.

Each Valentine's Day, millions of Americans gift their partners or loved ones with flowers, cards or candy as a token of ...

Ancient Romans had a seemingly predictable diet for pre-refrigeration days made up of mostly cereals, legumes and meats with ...

History is full of surprises, and some discoveries challenge everything we thought we knew about ancient civilizations. The ...

The 2,000-year-old basilica was “once the beating heart of Roman London,” the Museum of London Archaeology said.

Tap, chip, tap, chip, tippity tap tap tap... Eureka! "We actually split it!" Lakes Middle School seventh grader Alex Terry ...

Prologue For about a millennium the Mongol Turks have been targeting the Greeks. The Mongol Turks first appeared in the neighborhood of the Greek medieval ...

Researchers who sniffed mummified remains in the name of science were greeted more with a blessing than a curse.

The Ancient Greeks had eight words that corresponded to different types of love: The first kind of love is Eros, named after ...

A new, first-of-its-kind analysis of the scents of nine mummies detected woody, spicy, herbal and rancid notes, among other ...