The urbanization of ancient Athens, starting as a region of scattered villages and growing into an influential city, is fascinating.

A remarkably intact pottery vessel dating back more than 10,000 years has been recovered from the depths of Lake Biwa, Japan, marking one of the oldest and most significant ceramic discoveries in ...

Early in Percy Jackson and the Olympians’ second season, an army of undead soldiers swap war tales. There’s a Viking, a ...

Millions of Europeans know where to vacation to laze on the beach, tour ancient ruins and savor local cuisine. But few ...

From Homer to Philostratus, Ancient Greek sources describe Pygmies as dwarves at the world’s edge, fighting cranes and living ...

For the first time, scientists have mapped vast, continent-scale river drainage systems on Mars — ancient networks that may ...

To boost our understanding of a little-known civilization that thrived more than 3,000 years ago, scientists have built an ...

FLORIDA — The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has now renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America in all commission materials, documents, maps, and forms. The change is in ...