But as any serious superhero comic book fan knows, not every series in such a sprawling crossover carries equal weight. Books ...

An ancient strain of plague ( Yersinia pestis) has been identified in a 4,000-year-old domesticated sheep. The study provides the first direct evidence linking livestock to the spread of this early ...

On a dark night in late May 1543, a group of men snuck through the Native American town of Guachoya and stopped at the gated ...

If you're looking to go on holiday in the UK this summer, there's one town that you absolutely can't miss. The pretty little ...

Laboratory tests conducted during University of Haifa study reveal that the bronze was produced on-site by alloying copper ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the first conclusive evidence that bronze was produced locally in the Land of Israel during the ...

Suppose you were in an English language class and your politically correct teacher insisted that the use of language in all old books, going back to Anglo-Saxon poetry, had to be changed, because it ...

Archaeologists found a 3,000-year-old burial in western Iran. The grave belongs to a teenage girl from an elite class. A rare ...

As iron replaced bronze, civilizations across the world entered a new era of warfare, tools, and technology. This period ...

A study of ancient DNA from Europeans between 1,700 and 45,000 years ago suggests that 63 percent of them had dark skin.

Imagine a world where the Iron Age never arrived—how would technology, warfare, and civilization have evolved if the Bronze Age had continued?

Analysis of cauldrons nearly two and a half millennia-old has allowed archaeologists to create a near-perfect replica, ...