More than a century ago, a group of sponge divers discovered a shipwreck near the Greek island of Antikythera. It turned out to be the ruins of a cargo vessel dating back some 2,000 years—and hiding a ...

Clues from a digital reconstruction of a lavish ancient home are changing how researchers understand Pompeii’s elite.

If you’ve seen any of the “Ice Age” animated Disney movies, we have some bad news: You don’t know the real ice age.

More than 2,000 years ago, Greek artisans built a compact machine of interlocking gears that could track the heavens with a ...

If you work at Costco or happen to have walked by one of their computers and wondered if you've traveled back in time, you're not alone. It's not only a phenomenon at Costco, as Home Depot and many ...

I was going to start this review with a qualifier such as “perhaps,” but I’ll just posit it definitively: No ancient land lends itself to an immersive exhibition quite like Egypt. The larger-than-life ...

Florida might seem about as far from modern-day Egypt as possible – and just a few thousand years from the end of the sprawling Ancient Egyptian Empire. However, like many places in the world, Florida ...

BOULDER, Colo. — Maribeth Oscamou does not gamble. Yet in just two football seasons, the computer science professor collected about $25,000 from 24 different Colorado sportsbooks. “I really didn’t ...

The six-part documentary explores the United States’ founding struggle and its eight-year War for Independence, examining how these “turned the world upside-down.” It airs nightly through Nov. 21.

Sunday’s premiere of Ken Burns’ new PBS series “The American Revolution” doubles as an attention-grabbing statement, months after President Donald Trump succeeded in stripping away all federal funding ...