The terrifying and gruesome rituals of the Flayed God had a symbolic subtext that was somewhat gentler than one might imagine.

It's taken scientists a long time to figure out what amber is made of, and what we can learn from it.

At various sites throughout Peru and Argentina, archaeologists have found remains of child sacrifices.

Stories emerged in the centuries after Alexander the Great’s death. They revolved around Alexander's failures, not his victories. The portrait that emerges is strangely poignant.

The Babylonians knew their mathematics thousands of years before the Europeans.

In 1993, divers discovered a shipwreck from the Hellenistic period off the coast of Turkey. It held marble columns from the Temple of Apollo.

Even now, in the age of Google Maps, its name is synonymous with the unknown edges of the world: welcome to Timbuktu.

Using sand, water, and a scale model of an ancient Egyptian transport sled, a team of international scientists ...