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

Schoolchildren have been left horrified after they encountered an ancient skeleton sitting upright in a playground in France. Pupils at a primary school in eastern France encountered an unusual sight ...

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 ...

For over a century, a priceless piece of mathematical history has been hiding in plain sight. Deep within the archives of a ...

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 ...

A charming city made up of cobbled streets, pristine gardens, picturesque canals and a thriving food scene, is less than five ...

The story began with America as Iran's saviour but ended with America as its Satan. The rivalry written over decades in oil ...

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

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

Ancient DNA reveals that the Goths of eastern Europe, some of whom would ultimately sack the city of Rome, may have been a mix of peoples from three continents ...

The three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient evolutionary relationships in the tree of life, according to a new study. It is the first time researchers use data from ...