Its chairman, George Osborne, is about to meet the museum’s trustees to thrash out some of the most stubborn sticking points, almost certainly involving the word “loan”. I have been in Athens this ...

A stash of "unusually large" 2,000-year-old shoes dug up at a Roman site in northern England has left archaeologists ...

Nestled on the coast of the island of Euboea (Evia), the ancient city of Eretria was one of the most influential centers in ...

Tensions between Thailand and Cambodia have escalated to their highest point in over a decade, drawing widespread public ...

Archaeologists in Greece have uncovered a 2,000-year-old tomb near Corinth containing a gold Apollo ring with a healing ...

As America begins its 250th year, it is fitting to draw attention to the great people and ideas that made it possible. Neither the Declaration of Independence of 1776 nor the Constitution of 1787 ...

The Citadel has become a bona fide tourist destination, attracting international visitors who often arrive with empty ...

Hidden in Tennessee’s southwest corner sits a wilderness playground that feels worlds away from everyday life. The centerpiece is a gorgeous 35-acre lake that reflects the sky like a giant mirror.

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Stepping up to the table, the tourist squinted to make out what lay underneath the dusty glass top. “ANCIENT EGYPTIAN GAME, ...

An ancient climate tipping point is revealed in new fossils dating back to Earth’s most severe extinction event, called the ...

This is the fourth installment of Edmonds resident Nathaniel Brown’s recent travels to Greece. You can read part 1 here, part ...