A monumental Minoan building surrounding a 110-foot-long courtyard has been uncovered at Sissi on the northern coast of Crete. Built around 1700 B.C. and featuring finely plastered floors, the ...

The fourth-century a.d. Chronicles of Huayang, the oldest surviving Chinese geographical survey, records that Sichuan was ...

The woeful state of Viking bathrooms could be a factor behind smokers’ coughs in Scandinavia. Sometimes in human evolution, populations adapt in ways that aren’t always beneficial in the long run.

Clockwise, from top left: Three gold ear pendants, strips of gold leaf, silver coins, gold ear pendant A hoard of silver and gold items buried in the Netherlands 800 years ago—possibly for ...

According to a Science in Poland report, Marta Osypińska of the University of Wrocław and Piotr Osypiński of the Polish Academy of Sciences have identified 30 archaeological sites in Tanzania’s ...