HISTORY

The Bactrian treasure holds 20,000 golden artifacts. With the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, the country's archaeological remains face a grim...

The stash might have links to the Norse god Odin. An amateur treasure hunter wielding a metal detector has discovered...

About 200,000 years ago, ice age children squished their hands and feet into sticky mud thousands of feet above sea...

The Neanderthal lived up to 70,000 years ago. You can now gaze into the crinkly eyes of "Krijn," a young...

Is it even fair to call it a collapse? The Maya have lived in Central America and the Yucatán Peninsula...

They weren't hiding it from the Mongols, but an earlier, unknown enemy. Archaeologists in southwest Russia have unearthed a trove...

Neolithic and Celtic settlements were found by the cemetery. Skeletons excavated from a 6,000-year-old Transylvanian cemetery were buried in an...

The 7,200-year-old burial was found in a cave. A woman buried 7,200 years ago in what is now Indonesia belonged...

The 7,200-year-old burial was found in a cave. A woman buried 7,200 years ago in what is now Indonesia belonged...

The tablet is the earliest discovered example of applied geometry. A 3,700-year-old clay tablet has revealed that the ancient Babylonians...

Four of the panels date as far back as 40 years before Thomas Becket's grisly death. The stained-glass windows of...

A farmer living near Ismailia in Egypt has uncovered a 2,600-year-old stela erected by pharaoh Apries, who ruled from about...

People living across Europe around 1,400 years ago had a habit of reopening graves and taking out objects for reasons...

The tiny object is made up of two different stamps. Archaeologists recently discovered Israel's oldest known seal impression, a device...

The skeleton of a soldier found on a beach at Herculaneum, an ancient town that was buried when Mount Vesuvius...

Napoleon Bonaparte may have died 200 years ago, but the vast ramifications of his rule can still be felt –...

Second only to COVID-19 recovery, the continued unity of the United Kingdom is the key political issue across the British...

The 16th and 17th centuries were a notably litigious period in British history. New rights, wealth and obligations had to...

Africa is the continent most vulnerable to the impact of climate change. That’s largely because many of its people and...