A coded letter sent on Napoleon Bonaparte's orders in March 1809 has finally been read, 217 years after it was written. The ...

On the second night, the seer Ezra dreams of an eagle rising from the sea. It has twelve feathered wings and three heads. It ...

An entire Roman town—not merely a fort—has emerged from beneath fields at Stein in Lower Austria. The University of Innsbruck ...

A Babylonian pupil could learn the names of hundreds of gods without ever attending a religion class. In a new study published in Iraq, Shana Zaia shows how divine names, sacred places and proper ...

After three weeks in the mountains, the Secrets of the Ice team has announced that 48 prehistoric arrows like the beauty ...

Archaeologists suspect people may have opened the skull to eat the brain, but the newly recovered animal's age and the ...

Paracas weapons tell a story that ought to have an arrow in it—but does not. A new study of 200 obsidian projectile points ...

Now, if you open a Protestant Bible to Genesis 6, humanity multiplies and the “Sons of God” take wives. The LORD then caps ...

More evidence emerges that Tutankhamun's tomb might stretch beyond the painted walls that mark its end. New research has ...

The imposing figure set on the huge rock is not a new find. Previous studies have suggested that the petroglyph dates back to Kerma or wider Kushite period. The recent research study was still unable ...

The finding helps explain how a fascinating artifact was used and indicates how a lost technology that was used in prehistory ...

On Ukraine’s Arabat Spit, a Sarmatian warrior burial lay near the top of a mound built for people who had died long before ...