Salina Turda is a salt mine located in the Durgău-Valea Sărată area of Turda, which is a city in Romania’s Cluj County. Salt extraction at Salina Turda began during the medieval period, and continued up until the beginning of the 20th century.

Not only is the turtle one of the oldest extant creatures on the planet, but Jonathan the tortoise is the oldest living land-animal in existence.

Ancient Laodicea, home of one of the Seven Churches od Asia Minor is one of the most important archaeological excavations in Anatolia.

Whether for war or mercantile purposes, the galleons were the most majestic of all the vessels that sailed the seas.

A controversial new report uses a new “Relative Erosion Method” to argue the Great Pyramid may be far older than 4,500 years, sparking debate over evidence and method.

Driven by a sexual assault and sick trial, 17th-century artist, Artemisia Gentileschi, used her canvases to redefine the role of women in the Renaissance.

We might think of state supported health care as an innovation of the 20th century, but it’s a much older tradition t

A study paints a new picture of Tyrannosaurus rex as clever creatures, mentally capable of making tools and social interactions. Is this possible?!

Archaeologists made a moving discovery inside the 2,000-year-old tombs of children in the ancient Greek seaport city of Parion, now in modern-day Turkey. Excavations of several ancient graves revealed a number of children’s toys, which are believed to have been offered as gifts for the dead children to accompany them on their journey to the afterlife.

If you managed to time travel back to Ice-Age Europe, you might be forgiven for thinking you had instead crash landed in some desolate part of the African savannah. But the chilly temperatures and the presence of six-ton shaggy beasts with extremely long tusks would confirm you really were in the Pleistocene epoch