From military might to philosophical insights, ancient leaders such as Alexander the Great, Hatshepsut, and Cyrus the Great ...

Shipwrecks can reveal information about traded goods and even which rituals people partook in centuries ago. Shipwrecks can ...

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the ...

In the Amfissa Valley, an ancient footpath winds through thousand-year-old olive groves to the ancient ruins of Delphi — and ...

Scientists have found what they believe may be the earliest evidence of violence in Southeast Asia. Studies of a ...

Deep in central Vietnam a giant cave hides an ancient "world" beneath its surface, home to an entire ecosystem.

Long destroyed, the Colossus of Rhodes was a World Wonder that survives in paintings, documentaries, and even a few video games.

Illinois wasn’t always farmland. New research reveals a lost tropical world of swamps, rivers and seas frozen in the fossils ...

Tel Aviv, Israel — Modern humans and Neanderthals were interacting 100,000 years earlier than previously thought, according ...

This year has seen a number of artifacts recovered from the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Egypt. The area has attracted interest for some time due to ongoing searches for the tomb of Cleopatra ...

A chance discovery has unearthed what could be the oldest sword ever found, hidden away for centuries in a Venetian monastery ...

Ancient 2,000-year-old artifacts were recovered from the Mediterranean Sea near Alexandria, Egypt, possibly from the sunken ...