Now, more than a decade later, new analysis of the fossils has found that they belong to a new 73-million-year-old species, according to a study published Jan. 28 in the peer-reviewed journal ...

Spanning an area of 50 hectares in the Great Rift Valley, between the extinct volcanoes of Mount Olorgesailie and Mount ...

I've been working as a tour guide in Rome since 2008, and it only seems to be getting more crowded with tourists. Instead, go ...

Argos, one of Greece's oldest continuously inhabited cities, is located on the Peloponnese peninsula. Varanasi, on the sacred Ganges River, is one of the oldest cities in the world.

The hottest pepper in the world is often considered to be the Carolina Reaper, with a Scoville rating of 2,000,000 ...

Ruins on the Palatine Hill in Rome. Credit: Lalupa / Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0 Many people are familiar with the legend of Romulus and Remus, which supposedly explains the origin of the ancient ...

Clay tablets at Kurd Qaburstan reveal ancient Mesopotamian culture Artefacts hint at urban life in the Middle Bronze Age city Findings challenge perceptions of ...

What are the best city building games? There’s nothing more relaxing than sitting down for an afternoon of city building games. We’ve lost countless hours lining up buildings just how we like ...

As a volcanic eruption darkened the sun roughly 4,900 years ago, a Stone Age culture sacrificed hundreds of decorated stone plaques to try to coax it back. A trove of engraved stones unearthed ...

Charred by the flames of a funeral pyre, the Derveni Papyrus has proved to be a fascinating—and confounding—artifact Teresa Nowakowski Daily Correspondent The Derveni Papyrus, named for the ...

Under the city of Cuzco, Peru, a secret labyrinth built by the Incas has been discovered. Irene Wright McClatchy News High in the Andes mountains of Peru, the city of Cuzco once served as the ...

"We're studying this ancient city to learn very specific things about the ancient inhabitants," she says. "First, to what degree did they plan their environment, or was it just the result of an ...