Now one of the driest places on Earth, the Saharo-Arabian Desert may have been key to human migration history.

Biomolecular analysis shows that unusual book coverings are made of sealskin, hinting at far-flung trade networks.

An international team of archaeologists, bioinformatic specialists, and historians has discovered that many medieval books ...

While this trend's popularity spread quickly on social media, it had other impacts as well; it launched a 1,900-year-old ...

Now, a farmer is reviving this ancient "superfood". It's a hot and muggy summer day ... as plants produce surplus sap to ...

In medieval novels, Merlin the Magician was far stranger than he appears in modern pop culture. Archivists have discovered new stories about him.

A shellshocked resident of Madrid has asked Brits "how they cope" with frequent wet weather after weeks of unusually heavy rainfall across Spain. Storm Martinho has battered the nation over the ...

the Ancient Cattle of Wales Society (Gwartheg Hynafol Cymru) has detailed the breed, created a herd book for pedigree cattle and worked on increasing its population. The trust's chief executive ...

Scholars debate whether the Gospel stories preserve ancient memories or are just Greek literature in disguise. But there’s a ...

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...