A woman lost a body part after contracting a disease that caused a medieval plague. The 24-year-old began experiencing strong burning sensations coming from both of her legs, running from the middle ...

Advanced digital imaging reveals a portrait of an unknown man beneath "Ecce Homo," an oil painting by renowned Renaissance ...

New research indicates that hominins migrated into Eurasia approximately 200,000 years earlier than previously believed, ...

Archaeologists exploring the site of a planned 32-story office tower announced Thursday that they have unearthed the remains ...

Ancient Magdalenians practiced cannibalism, consuming enemies and possibly loved ones, revealing prehistoric violence.

While ancient Romans were capable of actively affecting the climate, we're far better at it than they were — and that should ...

Archaeologists are still unraveling the mysteries of an unusual burial site in Dijon, France, which dates to between 450 and ...

Claudia Victoria Poblete Hlaczik found through a court-ordered DNA test that her parents were not related to her. She now ...

Ancient DNA from 348 individuals suggests that pale skin became the predominant characteristic of people living in Europe ...

Flooding, famine, plagues. Historical documents from diaries to parish registers detail the dramatic impacts of the Little ...

Some of the last survivors will be joined by world leaders on Monday, to commemorate the 1.1 million people murdered there. The remaining survivors are now mostly in their 90s and this might be ...

Among 34,000 people in the town of Oświęcim is just one Jew – a young Israeli named Hila Weisz-Gut. It’s an interesting choice of residence, given the most famous feature of the town is its proximity ...