A 10-year-old girl out on a shoreline stroll on a Wales beach literally stumbled upon five prehistoric dinosaur footprints.

In early November 1927, the front pages of newspapers all over France featured photographs not of the usual politicians, ...

In the beginning, there were only myths. For the Greeks, the island of Crete was a distant and strange land and yet the site of some their most important traditions: Zeus was taken there to save him ...

Archaeologists in Troy, Ohio, uncovered an estimated 4,500 historic artifacts beneath the fire-damaged Overfield Tavern, ...

For millennia, people have suffered from bunions, a painful condition that’s uniquely human. Here’s why—and how to ease the ...

Prehistoric humans and their relatives have been playing ... said study first author Francesco d'Errico, a professor of ...

Plague, leprosy, smallpox and other diseases didn't jump from animals to humans when we thought. Ancient DNA is revealing ...

Ochre artefacts found in Crimea show signs of having been used for drawing, adding to evidence that Neanderthals used ...

Archaeologists are uncovering hidden pieces of early American history beneath the charred floorboards of a historic tavern.

An unusual stone circle that's likely a tomb is providing archaeologists with more information about life in Roman Bavaria.

From prehistoric burials to overcrowded Victorian churchyards, this is what our treatment of the dead throughout history says about the living ...

TV personality Sandi Toksvig has been helping to unravel a 2,000-year-old murder mystery as part of a new TV series. The ...