Math, genetics and statistics concur: it appears that all of us have royal genes at some point in our family history!

At least 9,300 years ago, Stone Age hunter-gatherers in a now-submerged area of the Mediterranean Sea accomplished a

One of the most famous femme fatales of the Renaissance, Lucrezia Borgia was born into wealth and power and was a pawn in her Pope father’s political ambitions.

Scientists claim that a genetic analysis of the 11,500-year-old remains of an infant girl from Alaska has shed new light on the populating of the Americas. The new finds suggest that the “Last Frontier” was inhabited way earlier than what we have thought until now.

Moss-covered rock carvings in Bærum, Norway reveal 3,000-year-old Bronze Age ships, a footprint and a hand, fresh clues to Nordic rock art traditions.

Infrared scans at Hever Castle reveal Anne Boleyn’s “Rose” portrait may have been altered in 1583 to counter witchcraft slanders and the “sixth finger” myth.

Egypt has long been aware of its problem with looters trying to get their hands on a slice of the riches that lie bur

A study of wine amphorae found in Jerusalem from the 6th-century-BC Kingdom of Judah indicated that Judean elites were already drinking vanilla wine then!

CT scans of Inca capacocha child mummies from Peru reveal trauma, disease, and the first known deliberate mummification of a sacrificed child.

The Uros people live on 42 artificial floating islands on Lake Titicaca. They call themselves "Lupihaques" (Sons of the Sun) and descendants of the ancient Uros, a pre-Incan people. However, there has been a great deal of academic debate on their real origins.