A body found at Herculaneum may have been part of Pliny the Elder's team sent to rescue residents.

Egyptian archaeologists working on the Nile Delta have uncovered dozens of rare predynastic tombs dating to the period before Egypt's Pharaonic kingdoms first emerged more than 5,000 years ago.

Seated in a yellow plastic laundry basket attached to two thick ropes, I was lowered into the earth. The light got dimmer, the temperature colder. A musty smell filled the air. The only sound was from the workmen above handling the ropes and yelling “shweya” — slowly.

After 300 years, Maryland experts find the historic site of St. Mary’s fort. Archaeologists have located the lost palisade that guarded the state’s first European settlement in 1634.

The remains revealed that the government official was wealthy as an adult, but he had a difficult childhood

The grave offers a rare glimpse at the lives of high-ranking Mayan officials.

A Connecticut man bought the small porcelain bowl for $35, then asked Sotheby's experts to appraise it. They say it's a rare 15th-century Ming dynasty piece worth between $300,000 and $500,000.

A history lesson and a recipe all in one!

There was a time when the Victorian facade was a prevalent status symbol in the United States.

Find backs theory that bluestones first stood at Waun Mawn before being dragged 140 miles to Wiltshire

Bronze age graves, neolithic pottery and the vestiges of a mysterious C-shaped enclosure that might have been a prehistoric industrial area are among the finds unearthed by archaeologists who have carried out preliminary work on the site of the proposed new road tunnel at Stonehenge.

The Bowed Strings Iconography Project catalogues as many images of bowed string instruments as possible throughout all periods of history through to the present day

The 19th-century whale hunt was a brutal business, awash with blubber, blood, and the cruel destruction of life. But between the frantic calls of “there she blows!”, there was plenty of time for creation too. Jessica Boyall explores the rich vein of illustration running through the logbooks and journals of Nantucket whalers.

The sensory recreation of history presents an intriguing scientific challenge: How do we know whether we’ve succeeded?

A British art historian’s painstaking study of the cathedral in Spain’s Santiago de Compostela uncovered a medieval prank

The 27 wooden coffins are said to have lain undisturbed inside a well at an ancient necropolis.

In total, at least 830 Confederate monuments have been constructed across the U.S. Most were not built immediately after the Civil War. They were installed decades later, mostly in Southern states, when disenfranchised Black Americans’ civil rights were aggressively under attack.

The history of quarantine shows the many borrowed ideas from various religions that helped shape the first quarantine measure enacted in 1377.

Evidence suggests the monument's Neolithic builders shopped local, for once.

It dates back decades before Vikings are supposed to have settled the island.