April Holloway

Depictions of sea serpents, mermaids, and other mythical creatures have long furnished world maps from the 10th century, ...

The English chemist and physicist John Dalton (1766-1844) is the man credited today with developing modern atomic theory. ...

Near the village of Shiyan Beicun in Zhejiang province, China, lies the Longyou caves—an extensive, magnificent, and rare ...

There is one thing that ancient Greeks, Renaissance artists, a 17th century astronomer, and 21st century architects all have in ...

Mass hysteria is a term used to describe the situation in which physical or psychological symptoms appear en ...

The Lycurgus Cup, as it is known due to its depiction of a scene involving King Lycurgus of ...

Underwater archaeologists made an extremely rare discovery at the world-famous Antikythera shipwreck site in Greece—the 2,000-year-old remains of ...

Ancient Origins investigates artifacts in Ecuador that could provide evidence of unknown civilizations, connections between America and Sumeria, ...

New evidence supports controversial claims made by Egypt's tourism minister.

Investigators have found what is believed to be a Roman shipwreck of the coast of Canada, suggesting the ...

Heinrich Himmler personally supervised the hunt for the treasure ripped from Rome when the Visigoth King Alaric sacked ...

Kongo Gumi survived the ups and downs of 1,400 years, but collapsed during Japan's economic downtown in 2006.

An archaeological team excavating an ancient center of the Hittite civilization in Turkey has recreated a 4,000-year-old Hittite ...

Talk of a maze of underground tunnels beneath the Colonial city of Puebla in Mexico has long been ...

Pitcairn Island is a place so remote, and with a history so bizarre, that until recently it was ...

What connection did the child have to this prominent bishop?

The oldest known crown in the world, strangely decorated with vultures and doorways, was found among objects like ...

A triceratops brow horn discovered in Dawson County, Mont., has been controversially dated to around 33,500 years, challenging ...

Archaeologists in Cyprus have unearthed a 1,500-year-old amulet in the ancient city of Nea Paphos in Cyprus, which ...

Amateur treasure hunters struck it rich when they unearthed a massive hoard of more than 5,000 silver coins ...

A New Year's resolution is a tradition, most common in the West but found around the world, in ...

Mixed in with the reality of impressive tombs in China, is a legend of an enormous 1,000-foot white, ...

The abandoned fort of Bhangarh is thought to be the most haunted place in India, so much so ...

An object pulled up by a plow in a field and used to prop open an office door ...

A pigment created by the Chinese some 2,500 years ago has the ability to emit powerful rays of ...

The Children of Woolpit is an account dating back to the 12th century, which tells of two children ...

Over 1,000 years ago, a practice was pioneered by a Japanese priest named Kukai, which was intended to ...