In 218 BC, the Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca achieved one of military history's most extraordinary feats - leading an ...

For 1,600 years, a once-thriving frontier settlement lay buried beneath Egypt's western desert. Once governed by Byzantine ...

This story involved the Franks, a Germanic tribe whose descendants eventually migrated to and ruled parts of what is now modern France, Germany, and Belgium. In a history of the Frankish people, the ...

In a landmark achievement for archaeology and the study of ancient philosophy, researchers have digitally “unrolled” and are ...

Narrow, worn stairs beneath the 11th-century Pembroke Castle in Wales lead into a shadowy cavern where early humans once ...

McDonnell sourced the rare sycamore figs from a 1,400-year-old grove from a friend who was also conducting research in Egypt.

The discovery of an incredible 6th-century BC burial complex in Sirolo, central Italy has shed fresh light on the ...

The Order of Santiago is a Christian religious-military order of knights that was founded in Spain during the Middle Ages. Like the Templars and Hospitallers, the order was established to protect ...

On June 22, 2026, Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History announced the discovery of Minanbé — an intact, ...

What started as a routine elevator shaft installation in a Barcelona hotel basement has turned into one of the most significant Roman archaeology discoveries in Spain in decades. Excavations beneath ...

The latest DNA study of the Shroud of Turin has revealed that nearly 40% of the human genetic material found on the famous linen traces back to Indian lineages, raising the startling possibility that ...

In 1969, archaeologists excavating the Issyk kurgan in southeastern Kazakhstan made a discovery that would become a national ...