Anglo-Saxons, Vikings and Civil War Royalists all made their mark on this north Somerset town, which proudly boasts “1,000 ...

Mulberry paper, an ancient Uyghur handicraft dating back to the Tang Dynasty (618-907), was once widely used for printing ...

Modern Kazakhstan is built upon a foundation of different cultures, khanates, and empires across history. A routine fire patrol, operating some 200 miles northwest of the country's capital, Astana, ...

RIGHT NOW, IT ALL STARTS WITH CLAY. THAT’S MADE RIGHT HERE IN MASS. THIS IS MOTHER EARTH RIGHT HERE. THAT IS IT. INSIDE HER ROSLINDALE HOME WORKSHOP, MIRIAM KATE AMARA AND HER TEAM ARE HARD AT WORK.

The ancient Egyptians took a number of measures to safeguard the pyramids. But did they ever resort to booby traps? The answer, Egyptologists told Live Science, is an emphatic no. "No, they didn't use ...

A few dozen enthusiasts of ancient hunting tools participated in the Northeast Open Atlatl Championship in Addison, Vermont ADDISON, Vt. -- Celine Thouin learned a lot as a student at Franklin Pierce ...

Scientists have discovered prehistoric insects preserved in amber for the first time in South America, providing a fresh glimpse into life on Earth at a time when flowering plants were just beginning ...

A 112-million-year-old chironomid fly (Diptera: Nematocera) is preserved in amber from Ecuador's Genoveva quarry, representing South America's first discovery of ancient insects trapped in fossilized ...

The 3,000-year-old gold and lapis bracelet, once owned by Pharaoh Amenemope, was being restored ahead of a loan to a museum in Rome. A similar gold and lapis lazuli bracelet recently went missing from ...

The groundbreaking discovery points to the possibility of past life on Mars. A 3.5-billion-year old rock discovered on the Red Planet is "the closest we've come to discovering ancient life on Mars," ...

Newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia show that Homo coexisted with Australopithecus 2.6 million years ago, rewriting the timeline of human evolution. Far from a straight line, early human history was ...

Archaeologists in Romania have unearthed an elite Roman family's ancient treasure, buried for centuries beneath the remains of a millennia-old city. The discovery, announced by the National History ...