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

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 ...

A new history by Luke Barr chronicles the innovations, excesses and chauvinism of the French chefs who spawned a revolution ...

France returns the sacred Djidji Ayôkwé drum to Ivory Coast, over a century after it was seized by colonial authorities in ...

A remarkable discovery in Izernore, France, has unearthed ancient wooden writing tablets. These nearly two-thousand-year-old ...

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 ...

The Archimedes Palimpsest is a 10th-century Byzantine Greek manuscript that was overwritten in the 13th century with a Christian liturgical text. This practice of creating a palimpsest, or a reused ...

Once containing treasures from the Stone Age to the arrival of Islam, Sudan's National Museum now lies mostly bare, looted ...

France is a country where history still feels alive, with centuries of culture, power, war, and art leaving their mark across ...

These remarkable women broke every rule of their time, risking their lives disguising themselves as men to fight in some of ...

Travel and Tour World (TTW) has unveiled its new research, "50 heritage sites in the world for 2026," highlighting the landmarks shaping the future of heritage tourism. Based on editorial research, ...