With a history dating back more than 1,600 years, Zhengding was once named one of the three most-important ancient towns in ...

Exploring Grand Palaces, seeing Egyptian mummies and gazing at the Holy Shroud are some of the things to do in Turin. This ...

ON A SUMMER DAY in central London, a 44-year-old woman named Lucy Peel descended a slippery stairway on the bank of the River Thames to crouch on her hands and knees over a particularly intriguing ...

Sam Kean has gone back in time, at least in practice, for his new book "Dinner with King Tut." He talks with NPR's Ayesha Rascoe about "experimental archeology" and learning about ancient cultures.

A groundbreaking archaeological discovery in Egypt has revealed fresh evidence about the workforce behind the construction of ...

St John’s Jerusalem is approached by a long driveway winding through a former deer park, currently used to keep horses. Its ...

The podcast dives into some of history’s most enduring mysteries—Atlantis, the Great Flood, and ancient technologies. The ...

Archaeology is revealing that the real Amazons were horse-riding, spear-throwing, pants-wearing fearsome female fighters from ancient Scythia.

This is the fourth installment of Edmonds resident Nathaniel Brown’s recent travels to Greece. You can read part 1 here, part ...

A temple bigger than a city block was hiding in plain sight for over 1,000 years.

From towering stone structures to underground labyrinths, our planet is filled with mysterious ancient sites that defy logic ...

It is being seen as the most significant event of its kind in the Australian state. The chance discovery of the Terracotta ...