Historians and divers are trying to retrieve prehistoric clues from beneath the waves—but they have to act fast.

Ancient Greeks placed great emphasis on healthy skin, and developed many useful and largely natural beauty tips.

Sixteen ancient canoes have been found in Lake Mendota, and the oldest is thought to be older than the Great Pyramids of Giza ...

The ruins of a prehistoric skyscraper: New research is revealing how Cornish tin appears to have boosted a long-lost Bronze Age Mediterranean civilization. This ...

ICYMI: Scientists recently announced that they’d discovered a massive underground city underneath the pyramids in Egypt. They claim it’s ten times larger than the pyramids themselves, and covers more ...

Often called the Harappan Civilization, the Indus Valley is one of the most advanced ancient cultures known to mankind. But there’s more—many scholars believe that the Indus Valley was part of a ...

New archaeological research is revealing that, more than a thousand years before Britain became part of the Roman Empire, it was part of an extraordinary Mediterranean-based trading network.

This summer, the Shanghai Museum unveiled its latest blockbuster exhibition, “Legends of the Dragon: The Ancient Civilization of Hongshan Culture.” To date, it is the most comprehensive display of the ...