The Amarna Letters contain records of ancient lords and rulers seeking to establish diplomatic ties with Egyptian pharaohs.

History Hit's Tristan Hughes explores the destruction of Pompeii, using extraordinary eyewitness testimony and the ...

A remarkably preserved horseshoe crab fossil from North America offers rare insight into some of the earliest known cases of ...

A scholar claims to have deciphered Cryptic B, a mysterious alphabet in the Dead Sea Scrolls long thought impossible to read.

Linguists at Aberystwyth University are assembling what they say will be the first complete dictionary of ancient Celtic.

Far out in the Atlantic, Bermuda rises from the ocean as if it’s breaking the rules of geology. It sits on a broad hump in ...

Detail of the pit marks in the shell of the fossil horseshoe crab (Euproops danae). Photos courtesy Gregory Lewbart (North ...

Unlike what appeared in a recent letter to be claimed as the definition of “Rogfast”, it seems to be an invented word, ...

A charming town in a popular holiday destination remains a snapshot of its medieval past and rich heritage but is smaller ...

The last two decades have seen a revolution in scientists' ability to reconstruct the past. This has been made possible ...

The tradition of leaving cookies and milk for Santa Claus has evolved from ancient Norse customs and early welcoming rituals.

In 1926, salesman Scott Wallace claimed to find a hidden city in a Missouri cave — then vanished before revealing its ...