The Milwaukee Public Museum is kicking off its final year at its current location with the first of five "Greatest Hits" ...

Historians and divers are trying to retrieve prehistoric clues from beneath the waves—but they have to act fast.

One of history's biggest questions is: "How does an entire civilization disappear?" One can comprehend how an object or even a city is lost, buried, or destroyed, but an entire group or nation of ...

Erich von Däniken, author of ‘Chariots of the Gods?’, died at 90. His controversial theories on extraterrestrial influences ...

We often imagine ancient civilizations as primitive compared to today’s urban landscapes. Living in mud huts, traveling by ...

Cutting-edge LiDAR technology has revealed an astonishing secret concealed beneath the dense jungle canopy of Ecuador's Andean Chocó: hundreds of pre-Hispanic structures that dramatically expand our ...

Yet the very system that made Angkor great eventually contributed to its downfall. Researchers determined that a period of ...

INDIANA, USA — What a sight it must have been in ancient times to see a total solar or lunar eclipse. Over the centuries, astronomers were able to predict days of when eclipses would happen, and now ...