Human remains discovered beneath the floors of mud-brick houses at one of the world's first permanent settlements, were not biologically related to one another, a finding that paints a new picture of ...

History was never my favorite subject. Maybe because of the way the lessons revolved around egomaniac men and their wars, which still don’t interest me. But history came alive for me last month when I ...

History was never my favorite subject -- maybe because the lessons revolved around egomaniac men and their wars, which still don't interest me. But history came alive for me last month when I saw it ...

Few things are more fun to study about in history than real-life houses of ancient people (and the hilarious graffiti at Pompeii is surely a strong contender). Walking through the ruins of an ancient ...

SunWatch Village, located in what is now Dayton, was a Fort Ancient culture community occupied between about A.D. 1150 and 1450. J. Heilman of the Dayton Society of Natural History directed ...

Archaeologists examined the remains of houses in ancient Maya cities and compared them with other Mesoamerican societies; they found that the societies with the most wealth inequality were also the ...

The remains of 97 human bodies have been found stuffed into a small 5,000-year-old house in a prehistoric village in northeast China, researchers report in two separate studies. The bodies of ...

LOCALS ON THE ISLAND of Patmos, a craggy Greek beauty in the northern Dodecanese, have long embraced a custom of passing home ownership down through the female line. This made practical sense in a ...

A tourist has been detained after he was discovered carving the letters “ALI” onto the plaster of an ancient house in Pompeii. Italy’s culture minister Gennaro Sangiuliano called the act “an ...

History was never my favorite subject. Maybe because of the way the lessons revolved around egomaniac men and their wars, which still don’t interest me. But history came alive for me last month when I ...