Historians are occasionally forced to revise their preconceived notions after discovering something hidden in the shadows and ...

Recent archaeological discoveries across the Americas are reshaping our understanding of ancient history. At the forefront is ...

A pair of carved stone statues used as garden ornaments have sold for more than 195,000 ($265,510) after it was revealed that they were ancient Egyptian relics dating back thousands of years, an ...

In the 1970s, Jessica Rawson, who was then an assistant curator at the British Museum, unintentionally received a key to the museum's artifact storage. It opened a room filled with Chinese jades, and ...

The three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient evolutionary relationships in the tree of life, according to a new study. It is the first time researchers use data from ...