Ghosts stories appear in several surviving texts from ancient Rome. What do they reveal about the people who told them?

Scientists dug into paleofeces for a new study, learning some very intimate details about how long-ago people lived.

Learn more about Wadisuchus kassabi, the crocodile’s ancient cousin that thrived in prehistoric oceans and rewrites this ...

Rome once had a near-equal rival just 11 miles away in the early days of the empire. The ancient Roman city of Gabii may not ...

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

Ancient Greeks encoded the secrets of their civilization in ways hidden in plain sight, shaping a legacy that endures through ...

Earth's Ediacaran Period, roughly 630 to 540 million years ago, has always been something of a magnetic minefield for ...

The discovery underlines the Western Desert’s importance as a natural repository of secrets from ancient geological eras,” ...

Researchers at a Harvard Medical School laboratory are uncertain how they will continue supporting a large public genetic database after its primary source of funding expired last month.

Also known as the “Seven Sisters,” the striking cluster has long been used as an important seasonal marker and appears high ...