Modern people have long wondered about ancient stories of great floods. Do they tell of real events in the distant past, or are they myths rooted in imagination? Most familiar to many of us in the West is the biblical story of Noah’s flood.

A fulacht fiadh (spelled also as fulacht fian) (the plural form being fulachtai fia) is a type of a

US border officials in Philadelphia seized dozens of Bronze Age swords and arrowheads believed looted from Iran, highlighting the ongoing trade in illicit antiquities.

Archaeologists in Hüllhorst, Germany, have discovered a 2,500-year-old Iron Age village with house outlines and ancient tools beneath a fire station site.

Michael the Brave was a 16th

A recent study of medical and religious texts suggests that men were diagnosed with infertility as far back as Medieval times, and indeed may be held responsible for the inability to have children.

Could prehistoric humans have left us evidence of their sophisticated astrological knowledge in the 17,000-year-old Lascaux cave paintings?

On a dark night, late in 1592, a group of Englishmen was massacred on the island of São Sebastião, off the southeast

Ancient genomes and isotopes from Urnfield-era burials reveal mostly local communities, shifting ancestry links, and a brief millet boom in Late Bronze Age Central Europe.

The last Aztec palace complex of the Tenochtitlan capital has been recently uncovered in downtown Mexico City and this same complex became Hernan Cortes’s home.