Early American history is deeply personal for author and educator Greg Houle. As a direct descendant of Thomas Putnam Jr. and ...

It was only after the bones were declared very old and not the product of a mass murder that the 167 bodies found in a pond in Windover, Florida began to stir up excitement in the archeological world.

There was no end to medieval creativity when it came to torture, punishment and humiliation! The ‘scold’s bridle’ or ‘mask of shame’ was a concept developed in medieval Europe to punish people, ...

A viral X post says Bosch painted a playable song on a sinner's backside in Hell. The notes are in the painting and a student ...

For centuries, readers knew the text mainly through scattered quotations in early Christian writers. Then, in the 1880s and ...

Football, rugby and lacrosse all received their first agreed rulebooks in the 19th century, which can make team sports look ...

A small carved box made from roe deer bone, found with the burial of a young woman at Milestone Ground in Broadway, Worcestershire, has no known parallel, according to the archaeologists who excavated ...

The Voynich manuscript may be difficult to read for a surprisingly physical reason: its pages could have been assembled in ...

The hill sits at roughly 1,980 metres, about 29 kilometres south of Mount Ararat, in Üzengili village above Doğubayazıt. Since 1959, people have hoped it holds Noah's Ark. In September 2026 a team led ...

A woman whose bone lay in Isturitz Cave carried ancestry from central and eastern Europe, and human DNA from cave dirt in Spain fills a gap with no bones. The data are new, but how far they rewrite ...

A new study of 2,316 burials from China’s Central Plain suggests that ancient inequality became durable thousands of years ...

The Denisovan story began in 2010, when genetic material from a finger bone found in Siberia’s Denisova Cave revealed an ...