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Kongo Gumi survived the ups and downs of 1,400 years, but collapsed during Japan's economic downtown in 2006.

Columbus Day presents a unique opportunity for parents to explore history with their kids.

A team of researchers seeking to unveil the true identity of the mysterious model who sat for Leonardo ...

Recent CAT scans reveal that the ancient Romans had nearly perfect teeth due to a low-sugar diet.

A new study describes how a small bone fragment indicates that a giant predatory lizard akin to the ...

An archaeological team excavating an ancient center of the Hittite civilization in Turkey has recreated a 4,000-year-old Hittite ...

Our popular ideas of the chivalric world are off base, according to historian Richard Kaeuper.

What may be an ancient Chinese artifact mysteriously appeared in a small garden next to a pond, on ...

London, Paris and New York are global cities: modern hubs for travel, technology and trade, their names and ...

Did prehistoric civilizations possessed advanced technological knowledge that was lost throughout the ages only to be redeveloped in ...

Talk of a maze of underground tunnels beneath the Colonial city of Puebla in Mexico has long been ...

This advanced device "comes from the consciousness of an indigenous society with no written language," said anthropologist Ramiro ...

Crop circles aren't a modern fad. Reports throughout history, before the term "crop circle" buzzed through the world, ...

The discovery of Homo naledi is one of the most extensive finds ever recorded. The species displayed behaviors ...

For thousands of years, the sudden appearance of a ring of mushrooms was taken as a sure sign ...

A previously unknown human-like species was seemingly capable of ritual behavior long before previously thought. A burial chamber ...

Details are still emerging of the scale of destruction on the heritage site of Palmyra in Syria.

Activities of the Maya 2,000 years ago in Central America contributed to the decline of their environment.

Archaeologists have uncovered a labyrinth in India that dates back 2,000 years and has a pattern similar to ...

Beneath the ancient fortified city of Edinburgh, Scotland lie the South Bridge Vaults—notorious underground tunnels and chambers that ...

Dusting off 15 Roman-era Egyptian mummy portraits—mostly untouched for 100 years—has revealed a 2,000-year-old surprise.

Researchers discovered evidence of both food and feces in a particularly well-preserved pterosaur fossil.

Did Scandinavian traders come to Canada thousands of years before the Vikings are thought to have landed?

The idea of "technological primitivism" often attributed to hunter-gatherer coastal settlers must be reevaluated, say Emanuele Lodolo and ...

Did a single wave of migration people the Americas, or have there been many expeditions from many cultures ...

Pitcairn Island is a place so remote, and with a history so bizarre, that until recently it was ...

A mass grave uncovered by scientists yielded the remains of 26 Neolithic individuals who appear to have been ...