Somewhere between an electron and a human being, the rules of physics change. Quantum mechanics allows an atom to exist in ...

While Brutus and his allies were stabbing Julius Caesar to death, a good chunk of the Roman working class was having a picnic ...

Forty years ago, archaeologist Lucien Basch and researcher Michal Artzy published a set of 19 ship graffiti carved into the ...

Some 40 miles (65 km) from Thessaloniki, a teenager who would go on to reshape the ancient world once sat listening to ...

Tharangambadi is a fishing village on India's Coromandel Coast, in the state of Tamil Nadu. Its name means "place of the ...

Under Ramesses II, who ruled Egypt between 1279 and 1213 BC and is remembered as one of its most powerful pharaohs, the kingdom kept a chain of garrisons along its western frontier, watching for raids ...

A team of archaeologists digging at the site of Ursoaia, in Romania's Iași County, has uncovered a nearly 6,000-year-old ...

All roads lead to Rome. It’s one of the oldest sayings in the Western world, and according to a new study in Nature ...

There's a temperature nothing in the universe has ever touched. It's called absolute zero, equal to -273.15°C (-459.67°F), ...

The site is provisionally dated to a six-century stretch, from the 3rd century BC to the 3rd century AD, offering a window ...

Anyone planning to build in Pontecagnano Faiano, near Salerno, has learned to expect a tomb underneath. That happened again this year, and this time the find was unusual enough that archaeologists had ...

Winchester Cathedral covers roughly 53,800 square feet (about 5,000 square meters) of floor space, making it one of the largest cathedrals in Northern Europe. At 558 feet (170 meters) long, it's also ...