A team of scholars and archaeologists have decoded Cherokee inscriptions written hundreds of years ago in a cave in Alabama. The inscriptions inside Manitou Cave near Fort Payne are the first evidence of the tribe's syllabary, which uses symbols to create words. Experts say one inscription describes a game similar to lacrosse. They say it details an 1828 match and indicates players entered the cave before the games and during intermission for specific ceremonies.

Homo luzonensis fossils found in Luzon island cave, dating back up to 67,000 years

Players moving pieces along a track to be first to reach a goal was the archetypal board game format of the 18th and 19th century. Alex Andriesse looks at one popular incarnation in which these pieces progress chronologically through history itself, usually with some not-so-subtle ideological, moral, or national ideal as the object of the game.

Experts think its owner may have been defeated in battle and dropped the luxurious weapon in the muddy streets

The year the first enslaved Africans were brought to Jamestown is drilled into students’ memories, but overemphasizing this date distorts history

Author Karen Dybis is developing an archive of photos, objects, and oral histories for the Detroit neighborhood.

A small coastal town had a bitter fight over a monument, and in the end Aboriginal Australians saw their version of history told.

Three former presidents, including his son, spoke recently about the life of President George H.W. Bush, all acknowledging Bush 41 was one of the best-prepared presidents in U.S. history, CBS “60 Minutes” reports.

The Tokalı Church, one of the oldest rock-cut churches in Cappadocia featuring precious frescoes, is being restored by experts from Turkey's Ministry of...

Greek archaeologists have uncovered the remnants of a city believed to have been founded by Trojan prisoners of war in the 12th or 13th century BC.

Egyptologists stumble across ramp that helps explain how huge blocks of stones were hauled into place.

How strange rocks—and an obscure language—are changing a decades-old academic consensus.

How subversives through the ages have expressed dissent

People are saying I am the queen of Sweden because of the legend of King Arthur

Archaeologists are studying a valuable trove of old Roman coins found on the site of a former theater in northern Italy.

Last month, Russian archaeologists found a secret chamber inside a medieval castle. While exploring this previously unknown area, the archaeologists discovered a clay brick with tracings of what appears to be a medieval board game.

The dig site found by metal detectorists 3 years ago appears to be a high-status homestead that once had two villas

This chart, digitized by the Library of Congress, depicts major battles, troop losses, skirmishes, and other events in the American Civil War....The “Scaife Synoptical Method,” advertised at the top of the timeline, aimed to fit as much information as possible into a single chart.

The terrifying Great Norway Serpent, or Sea Orm, is the most famous of the many influential sea monsters depicted and described by 16th-century ecclesiastic, cartographer, and historian Olaus Magnus. Joseph Nigg, author of Sea Monsters, explores the iconic and literary legacy of the controversial serpent from its beginnings in the medieval imagination to modern cryptozoology.

According to a report in The Local, a burned lump recovered near a fireplace at Sandby Borg on the island of Öland is a 1,500-year-old onion. However, archaeologist Helena Victor explained that onions were not grown in Scandinavia at the time. She thinks the vegetable may have been imported from the Roman Empire as an exotic vegetable. “An onion doesn’t sound very interesting,” Victor said, but she notes that the next-oldest onion to have been found in Scandinavia dated to A.D. 650.