New weather maps show vast swathes of the popular tourist destinations in Greece and Turkey transformed into dark red, showing temperatures of up to 45C ...

The Aetolians were an ancient Greek tribe of hardened hillmen that managed to defeat the mighty army of Alexander the Great.

WASHINGTON — Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according to research published Wednesday in the journal Nature.

Artificial intelligence is helping to solve an ancient mystery from the Roman Empire involving scrolls from a library that was buried when Mount Vesuvius erupted. The eruption of Vesuvius in A.D ...

A stunning fossil discovery in the United States is forcing scientists to rethink the timeline of dinosaur evolution across North America. These newly uncovered bones suggest dinosaurs may have ...

This suggests that ancient people had impressive knowledge of how the sea worked—even without maps or science.

Rice is difficult to grow in the Pacific, so how did it end up in a cave? Archaeologists reveal the hidden history of this ancient and well-travelled grain.

Scientists have found genetic evidence of an ancient group of people in Colombia with no modern-day descendants. It’s as if they simply vanished from the face of the Earth.

A closer look at the burial of a man born of incest 5,000 years ago reveals he was unlikely to have been a god-king.