The Archimedes Palimpsest is a 10th-century Byzantine Greek manuscript that was overwritten in the 13th century with a Christian liturgical text. This practice of creating a palimpsest, or a reused ...

For centuries, the Ark of the Covenant, the sacred gold-plated chest said to contain the Ten Commandments, has been one of the greatest mysteries in religious history. The object, which once ...

Harvard University has transferred the controversial Zealy daguerreotypes — images of naked enslaved people in South Carolina — to the International African American Museum in Charleston.

I don’t remember when I developed zero tolerance for disrespectful utterances against the Almighty God, the Bible, or the church. It must have been when I was ...

A new study conducted by an Italian engineer has argued that the Pyramids of Giza could actually be thousands of years older than we first thought ...

Mushrooms have been used by ancient humans for millennia, but archaeologists have only just uncovered their pivotal role in ...

A prehistoric mass grave in Serbia reveals that more than 77 people—mostly women and children—were deliberately killed in a brutal act of violence about 2,800 years ago. Genetic evidence suggests the ...

In a study published in the journal Iran, researcher Gad Barnea has uncovered new evidence suggesting that Zoroastrian religious practices were more prevalent and left a deeper imprint on surrounding ...

Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient Roman city on Israel's coast, which appears to be the grand port built by a king described in the Bible. The city of Caesarea Maritima, just 28 miles north of ...

Archaeologists uncover mosaics linked to early Christian churches in ancient Antipatrea, the Greek city beneath modern Berat, ...

Investigators have called off the search for the remains of two Craig County teenage girls in a Kansas mine shaft, but authorities will continue to follow up on any tips they receive.

Buried in the deserts of the Near East, Egypt, and Central Asia, ancient libraries with troves of knowledge and wisdom have been uncovered.