In a landmark project, scientists use AI and X-rays to uncover texts of ancient Herculaneum scrolls buried by the eruption of ...

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re dead ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek ...

NEW YORK (AP) — When Random House Publisher Andrew Ward met recently with staff editors to discuss potential book projects, ...

To study this history, population geneticist Harald Ringbauer at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in ...

Titanic: The Digital Resurrection, a new National Geographic documentary streaming ... to the hard drive footprint of six million e-books). To create it, two remote-operated robots romantically ...

A new study reconstructing the Arabian Peninsula’s ancient past adds clues to how early humans left the African continent. Dromedary camels walk through sand dunes in the Arabian Desert near ...

Twenty-five years ago, National Geographic Explorer Mei Zhang met Tibetan ... (Related: Rediscovering China’s ancient Tea Horse Road, a branch of the famous Silk Road.) Nuodeng, a former Tea ...

Geologists explain this wildly anomalous landscape, erupting from the featureless plains of Thessaly in northwest Greece, in terms of tectonic movement, vertical fault lines and millions of years ...

This aspect of his kingship was lauded in the ancient world and has defined his ... version of Cyrus in the Bible as a liberator. In the Book of Ezra, Cyrus allowed the Jews, who had been exiled ...

An ancient jawbone discovered in Taiwan belonged to an enigmatic group of early human ancestors called Denisovans, scientists reported Thursday. Relatively little is known about Denisovans ...