New excavations in the Nile Delta offer eye-opening clues about military and residential life in the New Kingdom era ...

Infrared imaging links the 20th-century Jean Metzinger work to a collector whose pieces were forcibly auctioned under Nazi ...

The predicted number, which includes deaths since June, likely represents an underestimate of total deaths. The heat could linger beyond February, and the climate swing could bring about other ...

An upcoming exhibition at Tate Modern will feature more than 60 artworks created by Monet between the 1870s and 1920s. These pieces reveal how he documented changing light and weather conditions ...

The Pyramids of Giza and the Great Sphinx might be Egypt's superstars, but look beyond them and you'll find intriguing myths, a warm modern-day culture, and a very human side to ancient history—and ...

The nascent nation's leaders fled to the inland city as the British advanced on Philadelphia in September 1777. They held one meeting at the local courthouse before moving on to York ...

An amateur archaeologist has unearthed one of the largest hoards of Roman silver coins ever found in Germany. The cache—which weighs nearly seven pounds—is made up of 934 silver denarii that were ...

Revolutionary History to celebrate America 250, new exhibitions and more Amy Kehs FEATURED: The Philadelphia was part of a small American fleet, hastily built in the summer of 1776, that stalled a ...

Lonnie G. Bunch III is the 14th Secretary of the Smithsonian. During his tenure, the National Air and Space Museum transformed its popular America by Air gallery. Scott Suchman. E ...

Ann Hodgman is the author of more than 50 children's books as well as several cookbooks and humor books, including How to Die ...

New research shows that proboscis bats communicate with each other and echolocate at higher frequencies than scientists ...

The piece of a clay tablet is marked with Akkadian cuneiform, and its text belongs to the Kadesh Peace Treaty, created by ...