A birthday cake had lit candles around it, with each candle representing a year of the celebrant’s life. The celebrant blows ...

During World War II, a German military captain acquired a stolen erotic mosaic while stationed in Italy. The ancient artwork ...

Where did Europe's distinct Uralic family of languages—which includes Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian—come from? New ...

Self-tormenting practices were all the rage in ancient Byzantium, from wearing chains to living on top of small pillars—and ...

Across history, ancient civilizations crafted prototypes for many of the modern mechanisms that have become integral to ...

Here's a look at LGBTQ+ history through time.In 1476, a young Leonardo da Vinci was investigated by the Florentine moral authorities. A few years ago, Italian art historians thought they had found ...

An ancient ambush of wild horses at a German archaeological site called Schöningen around 300,000 years ago suggests that communal hunting, along with complex ...

The Reddit post garnered almost 3,000 upvotes, with many users eager to identify the seemingly-ancient sword. They quickly ...

The mosaic, which depicts a couple in an intimate bedroom scene, is among thousands of artifacts stolen from the ancient ...

Heroin, one of the world’s most notorious narcotics, has a complex history that begins with the opium poppy. For thousands of ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

It is amazing how very often the weekly Torah portion that we read in Synagogues on Shabbat contains startling messages so ...