history

Vikings were some of the most capable navigators of yore, with far-flung expeditions and tales that continue to capture our imagination. Here are some artifacts that may cast some light ...

Elongated skulls have been found in ancient burial grounds around the world. Many are the result of intentional ...

Will Burrard-Lucas has traveled the world, taking in some of the most important places in human history. These ...

Polish archaeologists have uncovered 15,000-year-old sturdy and permanent structures in Sudan, Africa. They show a much more settled ...

With the exquisite turn of phrase for which she was so highly regarded, Barbara Tuchman once likened the ...

The wheel (specifically as a means of transportation) was actually invented at a relatively late point of human ...

A Siberian discovery has some experts thinking that all dinosaurs may have been covered in feathers.

The Hopi believed that the gods came up from the ground. The Hopi Ant People inside the Earth ...

Nan Madol is the only ancient city ever built upon a coral reef. Yet despite the enormity of ...

In 132 A.D., Zhang Heng presented the Han court with the world's first seismoscope. A 2005 replica was ...

This is the account of the discovery of a skull that has the potential to change what we ...

Sumer, or the ‘land of civilized kings’, flourished in Mesopotamia, now modern-day Iraq, around 4500 BC. According to ...

Professor of aerospace science and dean emeritus of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University ...

Archaeologists digging in Norway unearthed a skull that contains a thick substance believed to be brain matter.

"The creatures look purely fantastic. They all look like they were just made up ... But, in fact, ...

A Polish-Peruvian archaeological team has confirmed what has been suspected for many centuries – the Incas used the ...

This is the third part in a series of articles about World Cup history.

A series of mysterious lines and geometric shapes carved into the landscape of the Amazon were created thousands ...

When describing the discovery of an ancient love letter placed upon the body of a loved one, Chris ...

He is the “Napoleon of Crime,” as described by Holmes. As it turns out, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, ...

Sir Isaac Newton was interested not only in physics, but also in biblical prophecy. His end-times prediction landed ...

The meaning of the word 'berserk' originates with the Viking berserkers, the fierce warriors who were known for ...

The flesh-eating sarcophagi located in the ancient city of Assos in Turkey are so named due to the ...

This video narrated by Kenneth C. Davis teaches you all you need to know to be an intelligent, ...

The glass ceiling was broken again, a ceiling that's been firmly in place for 236 years. Meet Michelle ...

In August 2005, a tiny mummified body was found in the ancient Persian village of Makhunik in what ...

Archaeologists from the University of Wrocław have discovered more than 150 ancient graves in the Atacama Desert belonging ...