This Christmas, many children welcomed a familiar visitor – a jolly man in a red suit and a sleigh full of gifts. But the ...

Archaeologists working in northern Mesopotamia say they have uncovered visual patterns that look a lot like structured ...

Archaeologists discovered a fourth-century Christian church in Armenia, considered the country’s oldest. Armenia is believed ...

Centuries of excavations have unearthed a few theories about what really brought down one of the oldest cities in the ancient ...

In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation ...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — His U.S. Senate campaign under fire, Maine Democrat Graham Platner said Wednesday that a tattoo on his chest has been covered to no longer reflect an image widely recognized as ...

The search for Apongo is a small part of historians’ ongoing work to recreate the lives of Africans taken in the ...

Researchers studied fossils, well-preserved remains and even a single fingerprint to solve some of history’s long-standing mysteries this year.

Lottery jackpots have exploded in size over the last decade. When Powerball launched in 1992, the first jackpot was $5.9 million, according to the Multi-State Lottery Association. Now, the largest ...

A $1.817 billion Powerball prize won on Christmas Eve in Arkansas now ranks as the second-largest U.S. lottery jackpot ever. By The New York Times Huge jackpots have become increasingly common in the ...

Today, people consider "Yule" synonymous with "Christmas." But centuries ago, Yule meant something different — a pagan mid-winter festival, dating back to pre-Christian Germanic people.