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Glimpse into the ancient Maya empire through the writing of its own inhabitants.
To protect yourself, you need an antifungal rather than an amulet.
One hypothesis: "gossip traps."
And her clothing tells an important story, says archeologist Rita Wright.
Nearly 2000 years ago, Mt. Vesuvius erupted, burying Pompeii but incinerating Herculaneum. The most lethal volcanic phenomenon is at fault.
It wasn't merely an act of brutality; it was a condemnation for the afterlife.
Zombies aren't a modern-day obsession. Throughout history, fear of the undead led to bizarre burial rituals all over the world.
The cathedral is being explored as never before.
Brian C. Muraresku, New York Times best-selling author of "The Immortality Key," unpacks ancient evidence for the widespread ritual use of psychoactive plants.
Researchers discovered something modern humans had never before seen—a flashy Neanderthal horn collection.
A new discovery pushes back the origin of these technologies by about 40,000 years.
Archaeologists turn to other scientific fields to fill in the picture of how victims lived and why they died.
A non-invasive method for looking inside structures is solving mysteries about the ancient pyramid.
The strange bronze artifact perplexed scholars for more than a century, including how it traveled so far from home.
A wide-scale examination of early Neolithic human skeletons reveals the violent history of a supposedly peaceful period.
Could the prevalence of flood myths around the world tell us something about early human migration or even the way our brains work?
Ancient humans crossed the Bering Strait land bridge from Asia into North America. But some of them went back.
X marks the spot. The Dutch town of Ommeren has been swamped by detectorists armed with shovels looking for $20-million treasure.
Some objects were softer than others.
Ancient bones reveal that domesticated felines were at home in Pre-Neolithic Poland around 8,000 years ago.
Studying the display of personal wealth across time can help us better understand the history of socioeconomic inequality.
An unexpected ancient manufacturing strategy may hold the key to designing concrete that lasts for millennia.
If tourism is the lifeblood of the Peruvian economy, then Machu Picchu is the heart pumping that blood — in sickness and in health.
Wealth concentration among elites was common in ancient nations, but the scale on which it took place in Egypt’s 18th Dynasty was unprecedented.
The amazing life of “Gudrid the Far-Traveled” was unjustly overshadowed by her in-laws, Erik the Red and Leif Erikson.
Seneca thought the use of ice was a "true fever of the most malignant kind."
These were the stories you clicked on the most.
Some of the weirdest characters in Greek mythology were Athenian kings.
The spikes in their mouths would have helped them catch squid or fish.
You don't have to be an emperor to apply these rules to daily living.