A digital atlas of ancient Rome’s highways and byways reveals a road network that was more extensive than thought.

A group of scientists are studying the Cyclades, an island group in Greece's Aegean Sea, looking for signs of early human ...

The historical and archeological record upends the widespread belief that long-term incarceration belongs to the modern state ...

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

Archaeologists in Turkey have just uncovered a shopping list,one that’s 3,500 years old. The discovery, made at the ancient ...

High on the sheer rock faces of southern China, wooden coffins cling to the cliffs, turning entire valleys into vertical ...

New research reveals a prehistoric shark 115 million years older than Megalodon, rewriting the timeline of shark ancestry.

Calakmul remained relatively undisturbed until gum harvesters in Mexico led an American botanist to them in 1931. Here’s what ...

As the 2,000 lots in TimeLine’s December 9-11 Numismatic Auction reveal, nearly all coins minted over the past 3,000+ years have served multiple purposes from the very day they were minted, and those ...

The extinction of the dinosaurs may be ancient history, but that history continues to be rewritten, thanks in part to a professor at New Mexico State University.

Because this record survived, we know more about ancient Chinese history, the rotation of the Earth, and past solar activity ...

It comes to auction with a £60,000-£80,000 ($80,370-$107,160) estimate. In ancient Rome, private residences often reflected the citizenry’s love for the mosaic tradition through artworks, like a ...