From Roman fig-cumin balls to medieval candied violets, a number of authentic, old-school treats can be bought or made to delight, surprise, or perhaps repulse your Halloween guests.
Egyptian mummies with malaria and two skeletons from Israel that had tuberculosis are helping scientists understand how and why disease-causing organisms evolve.
A 3,000-year-old temple—featuring the image of a deity that's part spider, bird, and cat—may have been located in a capital of ancient religious worship.
Permanent servants who lived at the royal estate were brought there from many parts of the Inca Empire, according to a new study of bodies found at the site.
A new pigeon-size species found in Mongolia had long, ribbon-like tail feathers that suggest plumage first evolved for ornamentation rather than for flight, scientists say.
Scenes of everyday life discovered in the country's remote Northern Territory suggest that Aborigines interacted with neighboring cultures centuries before the British arrived, archaeologists say.
The pre-Inca Tiwanaku civilization may have sniffed drugs for medical and religious purposes, and used wide-ranging trade routes to obtain the substances, a new study says.
A Jurassic "party" left more than a thousand footprints and rare tail-drag marks at an ancient oasis in Arizona, a new study says. But some experts doubt the marks were left by dinosaurs.
From "eclectic" medieval towns in Belgium to McMansions encroaching on Civil War sites in Virginia, a new annual survey ranks the most authentic--and most imperiled--historic places.
Lambeosaurs likely used their boney head crests to produce deep calls and may have been able to recognize individuals based on their voices alone, new scans suggest.
Fossil hunters searching woods behind a suburban Massachusetts strip mall discovered the impression, which one expert described as "winning the lottery."
