July 15th has been a day marked by groundbreaking achievements, significant political events, and cultural milestones that ...

It's been 226 years since researchers unearthed a priceless ancient artifact that helped to reveal the secrets of a lost ...

BP announced it had capped its crippled underwater well that sent millions of barrels of crude gushing into the Gulf of ...

Joshua Hammer takes a hugely enjoyable look at three rivals who competed to decipher the world’s oldest writing ...

The Rosetta Stone is a black granodiorite stele inscribed with a decree by King Ptolemy V Epiphanes. The decree, written in  54 lines of Greek, 32 lines of ...

Ancient markings, sealed away for millennia, have just been uncovered in one of Egypt’s most iconic structures. These new ...