You sneeze, and almost instantly someone says, “Bless you.” But why? It’s not just habit; it is now almost a tradition. Those ...

Sung to the god Marduk, patron deity of the great city, the hymn describes Babylon's flowing rivers, jewelled gates, and ...

We have to talk about Glastonbury. This weekend, it became a sign of our darkening times.

In 2008 scientists reported that rocks in Canada were the world’s oldest. New data appear to confirm this contested claim ...

Scandinavian scientists said Wednesday that they have identified the oldest-known inscription referencing the Norse god Odin on part of a gold disc unearthed in western Denmark in 2020.

The landmark discovery, announced in Nature on Wednesday, makes Luzon the third Southeast Asian island in the last 15 years to bear signs of unexpectedly ancient human activity.

Haut-relief sculptures on the sarcophagus show a wine-drinking contest between Dionysus, the Greek god of wine, and the legendary Roman hero, Hercules.

The team also compared the microfossils with 480-million-year-old microbial structures formed around an ancient vent in present-day Norway, 186-million-year-old structures from vents in the U.S ...

Archaeologists recently made numerous "spectacular" discoveries at a long-forgotten temple to an Ancient Greek god, according to local officials. The Department of Antiquities in Cyprus shared a ...

Archaeologists in Caesarea, an ancient port city located on the Mediterranean coast of modern-day Israel, have discovered a 1,700-year-old Roman sarcophagus depicting a drinking contest between ...

The Copper Age site contains a trove of skeletal remains, offering insight about regional life approximately 6,200 years ago, and even contains the oldest-known tomb constructed from brick.

Humans Dead Sea Scrolls analysis may force rethink of ancient Jewish history Thanks to AI and modern carbon dating techniques, we have a new understanding of when the Dead Sea Scrolls were written ...