Benin City has grown from the historic Kingdom of Benin into a vibrant metropolis with the new Museum of West African Art.

A study says the Ain Samiya goblet, found in 1970, depicts a moment of cosmic creation, challenging previous scholarly ...

The return of Lake Manly to Death Valley, known commonly as the driest place in North America, highlights historic levels of ...

The Indus Valley civilization, located in present-day Pakistan and India, went through four periods of intense drought, which ...

Clues from a digital reconstruction of a lavish ancient home are changing how researchers understand Pompeii’s elite.

Archaeologists in Hungary have uncovered a 1,300-year-old warrior’s tomb containing one of only about 80 known Avar sabers, a ...

Cornwall has several stone circles, and as many as 800 sit across the United Kingdom, remnants of prehistoric people who ...

The royal symbol on the newly discovered figurines solves a long-standing mystery by identifying who was buried in the ...

A new radiocarbon study has clarified the timing of the colossal Thera eruption, placing it before Egypt’s New Kingdom.

There were 22 gold objects, in addition to other impressive grave goods, buried with the deceased, indicating they were ...

Plant species mentioned in texts from the past 800 years hint the wooded grasslands of western India have been there since ...

Olive oil is the Swiss army knife of foodstuffs. It can dress salads, sauté vegetables, even grease squeaky hinges. And for ...