HISTORY

The site is part of a royal compound that archaeologists think may have been overseen by King Raedwald. Archaeologists in...

The toilet was found in the Shaanxi province's Yueyang City Ruins and was likely used by high-ranking officials during the...

During the last ice age, which route was taken by the first humans to reach the Americas, and did they...

The discoveries hint that humans occupied the region longer than locals thought. Archaeological treasures, including Stone Age pottery and medieval...

The Aztec Empire flourished in the Valley of Mexico between A.D. 1325 and 1519 and was the last great civilization...

Silver penis pendants like this are rare. A metal detectorist recently discovered a silver, penis-shaped pendant in Kent, England that...

The most notorious pirates stole ships, gold and other treasures. History is filled with notorious pirates that terrorized the seven...

Experts are calling them hybrid Byzantine ring pommeled swords. Archaeologists in Turkey have discovered two "rare and unique" swords in...

Archaeologists don't know why the horse was decapitated. The skeletal remains of a man buried 1,400 years ago near a...

However, some experts question whether the mummy was even pregnant at all. Researchers studying the remains of what they believe...

The sphinxes were originally 26 feet (8 meters) long. Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered two colossal limestone statues of King...

They were likely used to sip beer communally. Slender gold and silver tubes crafted during the Bronze Age are the...

Thousands of pendant-shaped tombs discovered along the pathways.   Archaeologists in northwest Saudi Arabia have discovered 4,500-year-old "funerary avenues" —...

Skeletons of "kungas" discovered in a princely burial. Mesopotamians were using hybrids of domesticated donkeys and wild asses to pull...

The Renaissance was a period of "rebirth" in arts, science and culture, and is typically thought to have originated in...

The skeleton has been unearthed at Herculaneum. The skeleton of a man killed by the deadly eruption of Mount Vesuvius...

"Such inoculation should be common everywhere." A letter written by Russian empress Catherine the Great on April 20, 1787, stressing...

Rebel Maccabees stormed and defeated a stronghold of the Seleucid Empire. Archaeologists have discovered the burned remains of an ancient...

A recent deathbed confession has the FBI investigating a former toxic waste dump in New Jersey... again. The FBI is...