Paris' Louvre is one of the world's most famous museums — and it's in dire need of renovation. But structural changes are not ...

Paris' Louvre is one of the world's most famous museums — and it's in dire need of renovation. But structural changes are not ...

The Pamukkale travertines are limestone slopes and thermal water pools that have attracted visitors since before the days of ...

The Attalid kings of Pergamon — an ancient Greek state that ruled large parts of Asia Minor during the Hellenistic period — established a thermal spa town called Hierapolis near the ...

The Horrea Pippertaria, the Wanted in Rome website, shares, claimed central real estate in the Rome of yore. It was located ...

Population of ancient Greece, Men weighing merchandise, side B of an Attic black-figure amphora. Credit: Marie-Lan Nguyen Wikimedia Commons CC BY 2.5 Estimating the population of ancient Greece is a ...

As a volcanic eruption darkened the sun roughly 4,900 years ago, a Stone Age culture sacrificed hundreds of decorated stone plaques to try to coax it back. A trove of engraved stones unearthed ...

Charred by the flames of a funeral pyre, the Derveni Papyrus has proved to be a fascinating—and confounding—artifact Teresa Nowakowski Daily Correspondent The Derveni Papyrus, named for the ...

New discoveries by a UCF researcher and her team at the ancient Mesopotamian site of Kurd Qaburstan, including clay tablets with ancient cuneiform writing, a game board and large structural ...

Depiction of Uranus on the Pergamon Altar. Credit: Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY-SA 4.0 The Bible’s story of Noah firmly associates him with rain. In fact, the Bible first mentions rain in connection with ...

Here’s how it works. An ancient and enigmatic stone circle in the Middle East may not be a prehistoric astronomical observatory after all, according to a new study of satellite images.

But using ice cores and other ancient data points allows scientists to peer much deeper into the past, and establish that the climate today is likely warmer than it has been in 120,000 years.