Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient civilizations were dropping technological bombshells long before Silicon Valley existed. Just this year, archaeologists in ...

Incredibly, scientists and mathematicians in ancient Greece made some of the most significant astronomical discoveries ...

Archaeology continues to uncover new discoveries that deepen our understanding of the ancient world. From lost cities hidden ...

When it comes to ancient Egypt, archaeologists never know what they might find – and visitors are bound to be dazzled by the displays in the recently opened Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo. In recent ...

Five theatrical masks discovered at an ancient Turkish site are dated to the time of the Roman Empire. The masks were found alongside a 5,000-seat theater built by the Romans in the first century C.E.

In school, history often comes packaged in tidy chapters and predictable timelines, but let’s be honest, real history is anything but neat. It’s messy, dramatic, filled with surprises, and often way ...

Scientists have announced a trio of rare and significant discoveries, from a deadly brain-eating amoeba in western US national park waters to a medieval shipwreck in Estonia and an ancient Indigenous ...

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took this selfie at a location nicknamed "Mary Anning" after a 19th century English paleontologist. This was the site of the chemical experiment uncove ...