Eighty-one years ago, while America was at war and millions of Jews were being slaughtered, the rabbi of the Washington ...

In the colonized U.S., our history doesn’t feel nearly as ancient as Europe’s, so we tend to forget just how old the land ...

During excavations in the ancient city of Amastris, Turkey, archaeologists came across a monumental Roman stoa, or covered ...

Discover the role of Julius Caesar in Starz's new historical epic, Spartacus: House of Ashur, as the series recaptures the ...

A remarkably intact pottery vessel dating back more than 10,000 years has been recovered from the depths of Lake Biwa, Japan, marking one of the oldest and most significant ceramic discoveries in ...

During excavations in the village of Senon, archaeologists found three 1,700-year-old jugs packed with approximately 40,000 ...

Archaeologists working in the historic Turkish city of İznik have revealed a stunning third-century fresco depicting Jesus as the "Good Shepherd"—the only known example of this iconic Christian motif ...

Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have learned to make fire far earlier than previously believed, after uncovering ...

These villains are so old and powerful that they see humans as mere insects whose lives begin and end within the blink of an ...

Heat-reddened clay, fire-cracked stone, and fragments of pyrite mark where Neanderthals gathered around a campfire 400,000 ...

The oldest evidence for human ancestors using fire, dating back to between 1 million and 1.5 million years ago, comes from a ...