The oldest butter ever eaten was churned and buried long before Cleopatra's birth — an ancient dairy discovery still astonishing even today.

I dreaded the final cleanout of my mother's home. Then I saw a glint of silver, the corner of a large frame peeking out from all of that stuff.

The Israel Museum opens its new winter fare with ancient charts, abstract paintings, compelling graphics, and alfresco beauty. There’s ne’er a dull moment at the Israel Museum.

Eastern hellbenders, a subspecies of the largest salamanders in North America, are facing threats due to declining water ...

Designers are giving museum worthy pieces a new life. By Jill Newman Rebecca Rau was skimming an auction house’s catalog last year when a bronze amulet from the ancient Central Asian region of Bactria ...

This article originally appeared in The Conversation. If you were to visit a bookshop in the ancient world, what would it be like? You don’t just have to imagine it. The ancient Roman writer Aulus ...

Jemima McPhee receives funding from an Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarship. Ancient scientists can be easy to dismiss. Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, often ...

You know that moment when you're walking somewhere really old and it hits you? People stood right here hundreds, maybe thousands of years ago. You know that moment when you're walking somewhere really ...

Our hunter-gatherer ancestors have given us many things. They passed down mastery of fire for cooking and early survival technologies, such as stone tools. They may also have given us the secret to a ...

An Italian archaeological mission has discovered the remains of a sun temple belonging to an ancient Egyptian king near Cairo, the Egyptian antiquities ministry said. The temple of King Nyuserre is ...