From military might to philosophical insights, ancient leaders such as Alexander the Great, Hatshepsut, and Cyrus the Great ...

Shipwrecks can reveal information about traded goods and even which rituals people partook in centuries ago. Shipwrecks can ...

Deep in central Vietnam a giant cave hides an ancient "world" beneath its surface, home to an entire ecosystem.

For the first time, researchers have uncovered direct genomic evidence of the bacterium behind the Plague of Justinian—the ...

Fire and Ash echoes world mythology, from the Tree of Life to the hero’s journey, in five timeless themes from Pandora.

This year has seen a number of artifacts recovered from the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Egypt. The area has attracted ...

Ancient Lost Worlds and Hidden History. On location videos made by author and adventurer Brien Foerster exploring Peru, ...

The Judgement of Paris, which was likely the first ancient Greek beauty pageant, set off one of the most important narratives in mythology.

Illinois wasn’t always farmland. New research reveals a lost tropical world of swamps, rivers and seas frozen in the fossils ...

Paleontologists have discovered the fossilized remains of a crocodile "hypercarnivore" that lived in what is now Argentina ...

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the ...

Ancient 2,000-year-old artifacts were recovered from the Mediterranean Sea near Alexandria, Egypt, possibly from the sunken ...