A young Roman man was sleeping peacefully in his bed one night nearly 2,000 years ago, when a cloud of scorching-hot ash descended from the top of the erupting Mount Vesuvius to smother him and turn h ...

Archaeologists have found a large wall painting in Pompeii that portrays scenes from the ancient Dionysian mystery cults that were popular in the classical world.

A remarkable discovery in Denmark has been unveiled by archaeologists. It is the remains of a large, ancient timber circle, believed to be thousands of years old, with potential links to other stone ...

Randall Carlson is a geological researcher and renegade scholar with extensive knowledge of ancient mythology, sacred geometry, and the Earth’s history of catastrophes.

The Vikings have a reputation as a hardy and healthy people. But a new study suggests this conception may be a myth, at least with respect to the Viking-Age inhabitants of one Scandinavian country.

People have been recording local climates for centuries, chronicling hot and cold periods as well as resulting floods, famines, and fatal diseases.

After two years of extensive excavation and research, the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, through the Supreme Council of Antiquities, has successfully completed the ambitious Revival of ...

When people imagine Satan, they often picture a red-skinned figure with horns, a pitchfork, and an ominous presence designed to lead people into sin.

The ancient peoples of the Philippines and of Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) may have built sophisticated boats and mastered seafaring tens of thousands of years ago—millennia before Magellan, Zheng He, ...

It was only about a week ago that archaeologists in Egypt announced the record-setting discovery of the long-los tomb of Thutmose II, the fourth pharaoh of ancient Egypt’s 18th Dynasty, who ruled in t ...

The collection of severed heads was a unique funerary practice within the ancient Iberian world, notably in the Iron Age between 2,000 and 3,000 years ago.

Matthew Robert Bennett & Sally Christine Reynolds/The ConversationIf you’re a parent you’ve probably tried, at some point, to navigate the supermarket with a trolley, and at least one child in tow.