An excavation on the Greek island of Evia uncovered an unknown temple near the Temple of Amarysia Artemis still overflowing ...

An ancient Roman home more than 2,000 years old has opened to the public, but its spectacular mosaics, frescoes and stucco ...

One of the best-preserved ancient Roman homes on the Palatine Hill is opening to the public for the first time, albeit via a ...

Some DNA passed down from ancient hunter-gatherers has been found to be a crucial force in living to be 100 years old.

How was the great English playwright William Shakespeare influenced by ancient Greece, and how did he come to know about its ...

Dr. Rowan Martindale, a paleoecologist and geobiologist at the University of Texas at Austin, was walking through the Dadès Valley in the Central High Atlas Mountains of Morocco when she saw something ...

Children in Ancient Greece played with figurines that, much like modern Barbies, reflected the society and aspirations of ...

New research indicates that humans shaped their environments through hunting and controlled use of fire tens of thousands of years before agriculture emerged. According to the study’s co-authors, the ...

Researchers have reconstructed ancient herpesvirus genomes from Iron Age and medieval Europeans, revealing that HHV-6 has ...

Ancient DNA has been pulled from a permafrost-preserved woolly mammoth found in Siberia, and scientists are thrilled. They ...

Born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, in 1935, von Däniken rose to prominence when he published Chariots of the Gods? while working as a hotel manager in Davos. The book posed a provocative question that ...