Ghosts stories appear in several surviving texts from ancient Rome. What do they reveal about the people who told them?

Scientists dug into paleofeces for a new study, learning some very intimate details about how long-ago people lived.

DNA recovered from 1,000-year-old dried feces indicates that intestinal infections from pinworm or Shingella may have plagued ...

Australia’s First Peoples may or may not have hunted the continent’s megafauna to extinction, but they definitely collected ...

Archaeologists in Turkey discovered over 60 ancient tombs in Colossae, the biblical city mentioned in St. Paul's famous New ...

The new director of Rome’s Colosseum, has rejected reports that the ancient site will host electronic dance music parties.

A tourist is dead after falling from the Pantheon in Rome and into a ditch on Oct. 24. Police are currently investigating the ...

The bells and bleats faded as Osam Abdulmumen, a migrant from Sudan, herded sheep back from pasture, the sun setting over a ...

The desert was silent except for wind and laughter. For a few days, time slowed down, and we caught a glimpse of how humans ...

In 1812 Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Russia with one of the largest armies in history—the “Grande Armée” of about half a ...

Jacksonville Children's Chorus singers recently sang in ancient places with ancient architecture and learned about the people ...

Divine Egypt' explores how the gods and imagery were experienced in temples, shrines, and tombs, and how they came to life in ...