A newly discovered settlement in the north-western Nile delta was built by the Egyptian New Kingdom perhaps 3500 years ago ...

During a time when the average temperature was around 46 degrees Fahrenheit, this proves that European Ice Age populations were ingenious fire ... The detailed analysis required for this important ...

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World.

The discovery was announced by Durham University ... major re-evaluation of how wealth and status were expressed during the Iron Age." "It could also be important for our understanding of the ...

Based on organic residues – imperceptible to the naked eye and detectable only at a molecular level – bronze age wine consumption must be fundamentally reconsidered.

The objects are almost certainly associated with the Brigantes tribe who dominated northern England during this period. The scale of this discovery sets it apart from typical Iron-Age finds.

Providing a truly original perspective on the age of discovery, this fascinating history ... Instead, it charts a series of catastrophic failures during voyages by supposedly heroic European ...

In 1901, a broken tombstone from the first permanent English settlement in North America at Jamestown was rediscovered ... the limestone was formed during the Viséan Age of the Middle ...

So, the discovery ... more icebergs during this period, says Spencer. This ties in neatly with evidence for a colder period sometimes called the Late Antique Little Ice Age. The cause of this ...

At the height of the age of exploration, during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, one story in particular gripped the imagination of European colonialists: El Dorado, a legendary city of gold ...

Giant tortoises once flourished in vast numbers across a large swath of islands dimpling the western Indian Ocean until seafarers during the Age of Exploration from the 1400s to 1600s plundered ...