A tomb believed to be that of St. Philip the Apostle was unearthed in the ancient Turkish city of Hierapolis and not without controversy.
Hundreds of thousands of fragments of ancient papyri have been put online in a bid to crowd source translations.
French knights may have lost to a smaller army of English soldiers in 1415 because they had to slog it out in heavy armor.
Strong evidence for repeated tsunamis came from the presence of snail shells.
Restorers are removing wooden doors within the Leaning Tower of Pisa to restore a patterned light feature near the monument's top.
Think small variations in temperature and precipitation levels don't have much of an impact? Guess again.
A mummified head has been confirmed to belong to Henri IV, the French king who was stabbed to death by a Catholic fundamentalist 400 years ago.
The soup was found in the same region as China's famed ancient terracotta warriors.
Queen Arsinoe II, an Olympian medalist, may have ruled Egypt 200 years before Cleopatra.
Ever wonder where Halloween comes from? Was it created in the 1950s by marketing companies, or does it have a much older and darker past?