Introducing Ancient Origins. Trace your origins back 10,000 years. Compare your DNA to more than 150 ancient civilizations ...

The Scottish accent can be notoriously hard for other English speakers to understand, but what if that’s because it’s not actually English at all? Though closely related to English, Scots is ...

In a Polish forest, metal detectorists discovered a Roman spatha sword, dating back over 1,700 years, near Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. The sword, broken in two, might have been used by Vandal warriors ...

Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?

Learn how environmental changes have humbled many of history’s most successful and dominant cultures.

IN THE AFTERNOON glow before sundown, Mount Washington and Mount Madison towered in the distance like sunlit temples of snow. Nineteen people, mostly couples, came to the Bretton Woods Nordic Center ...

Buried at the Hezingen site, researchers discovered 25 gold coins, as well as gold pendants and a fragment of a silver ...

A married couple introduced an eastern Idaho community to an adrenaline-fueled sport with roots that date back hundreds of ...

Throughout the ages, this castle exchanged hands numerous times, even gracing the possession of the Crown of Denmark before its very construction. Notable figure Jørgen Laursen was one of its final ...

As populations were moving along the Atlantic Ocean, either for commercial gains or war, they would stop at the islands just off the coast. Researchers said there are extensive chronicles of Vikings ...

Etymologically, Wednesday translates to “Wodan or Odin’s Day” in honor of the all-seeing Norse god of magic, poetry, and ...

New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place ...