Son of Nobody” by Yann Martel twins the life of a foot soldier in ancient Greece with a modern-day man of letters.

If you want to understand Portugal beyond the beaches and custard tarts, its best museums are where the real story unfolds.

Medieval Ibiza was far from a quiet Mediterranean backwater. New DNA evidence shows that the island was part of a dynamic ...

Ancient DNA from a medieval burial inside a Neolithic monument reveals unexpected ancestry links and hints that the site’s ...

The remains of dogs from more than 14,000 years ago have been found in Turkey and the UK, revealing that domesticated animals ...

New research pushes the first genetic evidence of dogs back by 5,000 years and suggests that hunter-gatherer groups may have ...

DNA reveals the unique story of a man buried in Menga whose roots lie in Iberia, Africa, and the Mediterranean a thousand ...

Paintings from ancient Egypt show the harvesting of grapes and the making of wine. Mesopotamian murals illustrate elites rai ...

On the lush Costa Verde, artisans and chefs preserve the cultures of pre-Columbian and enslaved African communities—and their ...

Most people believe all sunken ships recovered from the ocean are filled with chests of gold and other treasures. The reality ...

Two 10-million-year-old whale fossils have been discovered beneath a beach in Portugal, revealing an ancient lost sea.

Porto is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Portugal, but it's also fun to get out of the city to one of the ...