High up in the icy mountains of Norway, archaeologists have discovered a unique 1,500-year-old reindeer trap, alongside ...

Investigating the discovery of a seemingly long-lost diamond had both the intrigue of a mystery novel and the fact-checking ...

Archaeologists in Poland have discovered a rare iron tool that the Celts used to perform cranial surgery 2,300 years ago. The ...

The great Norse warriors not only believed in the afterlife, but saw it as their duty to help the deceased get there, with ...

Edmontosaurus annectens, a large herbivore duck-billed dinosaur that lived toward the end of the Cretaceous period, was ...

Two Australopithecus fossils named Lucy and Selam made a rare trip out of Ethiopia for a 60-day display at the National ...

Boston University Astronomy Professor Gerald Hawkins has a bone to pick with historians who list the seven wonders of the ancient world. It is not that they have picked the wrong wonders, ...

The San Francisco institution has been amassing a rare encyclopedic exhibition around the oft-overlooked Etruscan culture for ...

A newly discovered grave at a cave site in Hainan province is the oldest burial site ever found on the island, according to researchers. The excavation at Luobidong, or "Falling Pen Cave", in the ...