In April 2009, newspapers around the world ran a headline that read like a cocktail menu: the center of the galaxy tastes of ...

For decades, one question has nagged at specialists in ancient Mexico: did Teotihuacan — the city that dominated central ...

In each of the Bronze Age Greek communities analyzed, between 5% and 10% of the people buried had not grown up where they died. That is one of the findings of a study in PLOS One by a team that ...

The newly identified fragment of the treaty of Kadesh. Credit: Turkish Ministry of Culture A newly identified clay fragment unearthed at Hattusa, the ancient capital of the Hittite Empire in central ...

Scientists have spent sixty years arguing over why the quantum weirdness that lets atoms exist in two states at once disappears by the time you get to a cat, a coffee cup, or a person. A new ...

A modest Roman bathhouse on Turkey’s southern coast spent its retirement very differently from how it began. Constructed in the late 2nd or early 3rd century CE, it stopped functioning as a bath ...

The team wasn’t even looking for a grave. Kjersti Væge, project director at the Museum of Cultural History at the University of Oslo, was overseeing a dig at Kongefaret 8, on the Svinesund plateau ...

India calls it Haifa Day. The regiments that get the credit are the lancers of Jodhpur, Hyderabad and Mysore — cavalry units ...

A modest Roman bathhouse on Turkey's southern coast spent its retirement very differently from how it began. Constructed in ...

Nobody expects to find a two-thousand-year-old fortification in the courtyards of a working hospital. But that is what ...

Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has announced the discovery of a Roman-period tomb whose architecture, according ...

While Brutus and his allies were stabbing Julius Caesar to death, a good chunk of the Roman working class was having a picnic ...