There are good reasons to be drawn to antiquities, but also many reasons to hesitate before buying, starting with concerns ...

Ancient Egyptian guards may have used a tiny cow bone with a hole drilled into it to keep royal tomb workers in order. The ...

A newly described fossil reveals that leeches are at least 200 million years older than scientists previously thought, and ...

This week's Free Will Astrology explores code switching, Maat's feather, and the truth behind glamour.

Newly discovered prehistoric artwork suggests how a pioneering sect of desert nomads, unknown to history until now, carved ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Researchers have discovered life-size rock carvings of camels, gazelles and other animals in the Saudi ...

Late Cretaceous dinosaurs may have cut back vegetation, creating large floodplains. When the asteroid hit, those floodplains ...

When most of us think about the history of money, we imagine a simple timeline: people bartered goods, then invented coins, ...

Pasteli (Greek: παστέλι) the ancient Greek dessert, has very few ingredients, but it has a great deal of history behind it. A ...

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, according to ...

When we picture the history of money, many imagine barter leading naturally to coins, then paper bills, then cards and ...

Earth was not always the blue-green world we know today: early Earth's oxygen levels were about a million times lower than we ...