Archaeologists exploring the Judean Desert recently unearthed a mysterious pyramid that dates back 2,200 years. Found in the ...

The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Boğazköy-Hattuša is located in the north of Turkey. It was once the capital of the Hittite ...

The world is littered with the relics of past civilizations, but not all of them are out in the open like the pyramids, some ...

The discovery of artifacts near the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun may be the oldest known evidence of a ritual known as the ...

The olive tree of Vouves has survived fire, droughts and other climatic shifts while watching history unfold over millennia.

The ancient world was replete with a myriad of fascinating civilizations, many of which are no longer remembered.

The ancient road that ran through northern Greece and connected ... when Emperor Constantine renamed the city after himself and pronounced Constantinople the capital of the Roman Empire. Civic ...

Barack Obama visits a SpaceX hangar with Elon Musk at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, US, April 15, 2010. ALEX BRANDON / ASSOCIATED PRESS Elon Musk is trying to slash US federal spending, but ...

This ancient period of deep freeze, known as the Neoproterozoic Era, or “Snowball Earth,” lasted from about 1 billion to 543 million years ago. During that time, landmasses consolidated into a ...

From the rover's point of view on the ground, it's hard to tell, but this ancient shoreline on Mars seemed to lie inside a 2,050-mile-wide (3,300-kilometer-wide) impact crater called Utopia Basin.

The Huns were a nomadic people whose sudden and ferocious arrival in the late 4th century sent shockwaves through the ancient world ... the heart of the Roman Empire. They were led by Attila ...

A new study of ancient DNA from fifth- to sixth-century Hun skeletons suggests they were a motley crew of mixed origin with a few connections to the Xiongnu Empire in Mongolia.