Journalist and photographer Paul Salopek is about halfway through a 24,000 mile global trek following in the footsteps of our collective ancestors.
California has righted a historical wrong and returned prime beachfront in the state to its African-American heirs.
An early Bronze Age log coffin has been discovered accidently on a golf course. Sheffield University tells the story.
Historian David Adkins believes he found the secret location of the Holy Grail and Ark of the Covenant—under the Staffordshire Sinai House.
3 stonemasons working on a 13th-century French estate were shocked to find a box stuffed with rare gold coins-and they'll share with owners.
In the Classical-era city of Taposiris Magna, in Egypt, a number of mummies were recently discovered, one of which had a gold tongue.
A trove of small objects was found recently in Pompeii, thought to belong to a kind of poor sorceress for use in fertility and luck rituals.
An ancient picture of love has emerged from Northern China where to lovers' skeletons were found locked in an embrace under the earth.
In Berkshire, England, the seat of power for one of the most influential women in Medieval history, Queen Cynethryth, has been discovered.
King Khufu's solar boat is on the move after 4,600 years of sitting next to the Egyptian pyramids-watch the video, and history being made.
Amid an expanse of undulating Iowa farmland and Catholic and Lutheran churches, the town of Elkader bears the name of a Muslim hero. Abd el-Kader was renowned in the 19th century for leading Algeria's fight for independence and protecting non-Muslims from persecution. Even Abraham Lincoln extolled him. This weekend, for the fifth year in a row, Elkader will welcome a delegation of Arab dignitaries to celebrate this rare lifeline of tolerance.
Honoring and utilizing Mayan style and method the Tulum station on the Tren Maya railway line is stunning and sustainable.
A sketch attributed to Pablo Picasso surfaced in a Massachusetts auction house and sold for $150,000 after it was found in a Maine estate.
Billionaire David Koch has donated $35 million to the National Museum of Natural History for the renovation of the Smithsonian Institute's most popular exhibit. The gift will go to a new dinosaur hall, which has been high on the list of needed renovations at the museum.
Paleontologists are digging into a fascinating discovery in Neuquén Province, Argentina, that could be the largest dinosaur ever.
The Museum Hotel undertook one of the most extensive archeological excavations in the city's long history to dig up the mosaic.
German and Kurdish archaeologists have uncovered an ancient city of the Mittani Empire after a drought lowered levels of the Tigris River.
Dogs became ‘man's best friend' because of a gene that lowered their stress and made them more relaxed around people, says new research.
The city of nearly 100 identified buildings is soon to open for tourists after the COVID-19 shutdowns along the Maya Riviera.
The estimated date of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius has been pushed back based on new discoveries in the ever-intriguing site of Pompeii.
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