Discovered on accident in Rimini, Italy, this surgeon’s house and the hooks, scalpels, and mortars inside have expanded what ...

Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?

At first glance, you would be forgiven for thinking that the work of contemporary Indonesian artist Citra Sasmita was made ...

Experts are returning to Syria’s war-ravaged heritage sites, hoping to lay the groundwork for restoring them and reviving ...

With sharp catlike teeth and a doglike body, ancient carnivores called hyaenodonts were once at the top of the food ...

In films and books, terrible things happen to those who smell mummified bodies,” said Cecilia Bembibre, director of research ...

An English woman in the small village of Whiteparish had been using this slab as a stepping stone in her garden for almost a decade — until she discovered that it was an ancient Roman relic from the ...

After detailed scans of the find and a yearslong preservation process, experts identified the material as a 1,600-year-old purple fabric woven with gold threads. Its purple dye, now faded to a red ...

An incredible 1,900-year-old papyrus sheds light on an ancient criminal case involving forgery, tax fraud and slaves from the Roman empire. This papyrus, which was discovered in the 1950s but ...

Ghazala, Curt Devine, Majlie de Puy Kamp and Rene Marsh, CNN (CNN) — One is a 23-year-old software engineer from Nebraska who ...

A charred scroll has been digitally deciphered for the first time in 2,000 years after it was buried in the ancient Italian city of Herculaneum following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.