In 480 BC, Persian forces led by King Xerxes I burned down the city of Athens, as well as the Acropolis, in what is called ...

The skeleton is the latest in a series of bodies discovered in the city of Dijon that were mysteriously buried in a seated ...

The Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 was one of the largest and most dramatic popular uprisings in medieval Europe. But what do we really know about this celebrated event in English history? The rising was ...

Once lit, 600 torchbearers carried the flame through 41 Greek towns to the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens. From Athens, the torch boarded the “Belem,” a three-masted ship that dates back to 1896, the ...

Researchers had long assumed the art inside Font-de-Gaume in France was made with pigments that couldn't be analyzed using ...

Jurassic lizard footprints found in Spain provide rare trackways and insight into reptile motion 152 million years ago.

Debunking alien claims matters, but so does telling richer, more compelling stories about how humans shaped their own past.

Three leaves had been missing for more than a century. Researchers found one of them when they decided on a whim to check the ...

A remarkable discovery in Izernore, France, has unearthed ancient wooden writing tablets. These nearly two-thousand-year-old relics provide a unique window into Roman provincial life. The waterlogged ...

France has returned a looted sacred talking drum to Ivory Coast, marking the first official restitution of precious artifacts from France to the west African nation after they were looted during the ...

One of three missing pages from Archimedes' palimpsest, a 10th century manuscript containing several copies of the Greek scientist's ancient texts, has been found by a researcher in the archives of ...

It all started off as a joke, a French researcher told AFP. But what the team found was a piece of history—a long-lost page from a legendary manuscript by ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes which ...