After years of delays, the long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum – set to be the world’s largest devoted to ancient Egypt – will ...

The strange and powerful symbol at the heart of one of history’s greatest temples reveals the importance of the goddess ...

Is it the long-faded colors of ancient artifacts from all around the world or the hushed sounds of visitors discussing what ...

Panicked high schoolers were cramming about Julius Caesar's exploits as a Roman general and statesman after the error was ...

New research shows that the rise of Sumer was deeply tied to the tidal and sedimentary dynamics of ancient Mesopotamia. Early ...

These saints from centuries ago still speak urgently with timeless messages on community, knowledge, creativity, ...

Channel 5 has boarded as the first broadcast partner for the Keshet International and SandStone Global co-production Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The three-part history docuseries, presented by ...

Long before there were maps or names for continents, a handful of people stood at the edge of the world. Picture them on a frozen shoreline in what’s now Japan or Russia, staring east across the gray ...

Turns out, ancient body art is a lot more common than we once thought—and it's providing historians with new ways of ...

“G reek literature contains the germs of almost everything, so you can treat of almost all tendencies in treating of it,” the Hellenist Gilbert Murray wrote in the year 1900. One and a quarter ...

Can you name the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the earth? Or which ancient queen married two of her brothers? How about this one: Do you know the artist who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?