Wedding rings and engagement rings have symbolized love, commitment, and unity for centuries, with origins dating back to ...

The Open University has been forced to back down on claims the Virgin Mary was born in “ancient Palestine” following a legal ...

Link found between super-agers, or people with exceptional longevity, to inherited DNA from Ice Age hunter-gatherer ...

China surprised us in ways we never imagined during our journey through Dazu, a place where ancient history and modern ...

For the first time, scientists have reconstructed the ancient genomes of human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B (HHV-6A/B) from ...

Researchers have reconstructed ancient herpesvirus genomes from Iron Age and medieval Europeans, revealing that HHV-6 has ...

The year’s most notable findings also include insights into dog and sheep domestication and a new species of manta ray in the ...

A new book by historian and archaeologist Eve MacDonald paints a more complete portrait of the once-great African society ...

History has long celebrated its ancient world pioneers, yet many great deeds of overlooked figures have faded with their names.

Wedding traditions are rooted in superstition, religion and cultural exchange, even as couples continue to reinterpret them ...

The Roman Empire may have fallen more than 1,500 years ago, but its streets never truly disappeared. Across Europe and the ...

Archaeologists recently discovered an ancient Egyptian luxury barge near Cleopatra's lost palace in Alexandria. The 115-foot ...