More than a millennium before Cleopatra, the female ruler Hatshepsut blazed a trail for powerful women in the ancient ...

Nevada was once home to Prometheus, an ancient bristlecone pine that was also the oldest living organism on the planet. Then ...

Welcome back to the Grand Hotseat Campaign! This is Part 6Turn order (factions with less initial regions go first):1: ...

The transformation of the Roman Empire into what modern historians call Byzantium was not a single event but a gradual ...

Archaeologists Unearth the 2,500-Year-Old Remains of a Lost Roman Society ...

Jason Statham stars in 'Shelter' from director Ric Roman Waugh, playing a former M16 agent hiding out on a Scottish island.

Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, often called “the conscience of the nation,” has been trying to tone down the uproar after ...

The mummies tested in the study spanned almost the entire history of ancient Egypt, ranging from 2000 BCE to 295 CE. On the whole, the researchers found that mummies from the same historical period ...

Three hundred years after Christ, in the middle of a grappling Roman Empire, a small group of men and women left their cities in search of the quiet desolation of the Egyptian desert to become the ...

One of the biggest unanswered questions in history for the past few thousand years is the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt.

Our modern calendar is the Gregorian calendar, named for Pope Gregory XIII, who reformed it in 1582 to correct some errors in ...