Talk about a long walk. A paraglider getting an aerial view of the Great Pyramids of Giza in Egypt on Monday was surprised to ...

As the Encyclopedia of Ancient History points out, Sumerian proverbs often had the same structure and story as Aesop's fables ...

Samhain is the ancient Irish festival that became Halloween ... Koch’s “The Celts: History, Life, and Culture,” in the myth “The Wooing of Emer” Samhain is mentioned a couple of times.

The explorer Jacques Soustelle called Bonampak "a pictorial encyclopedia of a Mayan city ... beautiful murals depicting the life of the ancient Maya. The three-roomed Templo de las Pinturas ...

Fork and spoons at the ready and gluten gluttons on your marks; it’s National Pasta Day. In honor of the glory of sauce and ...

The Hoxne Hoard is one of the most significant archaeological finds out of Britain. The hoard is mostly made of gold and silver coins, although other unique objects add to its value.

But it turns out this week’s showstoppers, mouth-watering cornucopia, have a history that’d fit right into the Greek ...

Brushing away some dirt in southern Sweden, archaeologists carefully revealed a 2,500-year-old gravesite of an elite woman.

World History Encyclopedia. "The Invention of the First Coinage in Ancient Lydia." Hans Ulrich Vogel. "Marco Polo Was in China: New Evidence from Currencies, Salts and Revenues," Page 94.

Ancient masters of engineering ... This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Water was transported not only for drinking but also for public ...

A snapshot of the librarians who digitized The Star-Ledger archives, and help reporters find data and information for their ...

Every state has a capitol building that houses its state legislature. Many are domed buildings similar to the US capitol, but ...