A study reveals that the Kasta Tomb in Amphipolis, Greece, built by Alexander for Hephaestion, was solar-aligned with the ...

For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

This armor wasn't just for show. It could have seen deadly combat during the epic Trojan War.

The largest and most lavish tomb ever built in ancient Macedonia may have been designed to fill with sunlight on the winter ...

Amateur archaeologists uncovered a sandstone relief of the Roman goddess of victory in Northumberland. The find occurred in a ...

Mr. Hoffman is an associate editor of the Sun, where he covers politics and culture. He holds a PhD from Harvard and a law ...

Three tombs dating back thousands of years have been unearthed in an ancient Egyptian burial complex. The tombs of three ...

Chloe, often used as an alternative name for Demeter, the Greek goddess of fertility and agriculture, symbolizes new life and ...

The Atlantic has a fascinating deep dive into khipus — long cords that the Inca tied knots into to preserve information. Few ...

A tomb that may have been built for a close friend of Alexander the Great may be aligned with the winter solstice.

The story of Cassandra, the woman who told the truth but was not believed ... the eternally riled — got called hysterical once in a while. Hysteria derives from the Greek word for “uterus,” and the ...

Recently, the world got a rare treat: new frescoes were unearthed from Pompeii that show mythological scenes from the Trojan ...