Archaeologists believe that the stylus was carved to resemble a herm, a type of sculpture in ancient Greece that was often ...

A tiny bird figurine discovered in a refuse heap in the Henan province of China is changing what historians thought they knew ...

"I don't find it strange he kept his illness so private. He'd had his life picked over for 40 years, and he thought he had ...

New forensic analysis of a mummified man discovered in Chile’s Atacama Desert has revealed that the individual seemingly died ...

The deepest reaches of the Arctic Ocean contain one of the most desolate environments on our entire planet. It is known as ...

Archaeologists in Tønsberg, Norway, found a gold medieval ring set with a blue stone that was meant to promote chastity and ...

An ancient war trumpet known as a carnyx was discovered in southeastern England — and it may have links to the Celtic Queen ...

According to a new (but as-of-yet not peer-reviewed) study published in the preprint database bioRxiv, scientists began their ...

Kim Ung-Yong became famous in the 1960s as a child prodigy, but the truth about his later life is more difficult to verify.

After reading about the 1,900-year-old Hermes head that was found in the ancient city of Laodicea in Turkey, discover the ...

Archaeologists in Syedra, Turkey, have identified more than 100 olive oil workshops, suggesting widespread production during ...

The species, so rarely observed that it was classified as endangered in 2008, had long been considered “possibly extinct” in ...