See half-naked—but all red—revelers get medieval, a Hollywood landmark go up in smoke, skulls stare into the Paris underworld, and more.

A 500-year-old shipwreck has been found off the coast of Namibia laden with tons of copper ingots, elephant tusks, gold coins, and cannons to fend off pirates.

A rare genetic mutation gave the ancient pharaoh Akhenaten an unusually feminine physique, according to a Yale University physician.

Remains exhumed last year belong to two children of Tsar Nicholas II, may put to rest questions about what happened to Russia's last royal family, an official said.

Part of China's famed terra-cotta army is coming to the U.S. for a traveling exhibit over the next two years.

The dethroning of a Russian king and a bad year for wine harvests in 1601 can be traced back to a massive volcanic eruption in southern Peru, researchers say.

Mexicans discovered sunflower farming for themselves around 300 B.C., a new study says. Others argue that the technique trickled down from the eastern U.S.

Later this year, cockfighting will be banned in Louisiana, making it illegal in all 50 U.S. states. But in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, it is a legal, thriving industry with more than a hundred licensed arenas.

The Iraqi national museum has re-acquired more than 700 looted antiquities that Syria had seized from traffickers since the 2003 U.S. military invasion.

A rare visit by archaeologists inside the tomb of Empress Jingu offers experts hope that other closely guarded sites dating to the founding of Japan might soon be open to independent study.

Iraq's National Museum welcomed the return of more than 700 antiquities stolen during the chaos that followed the U.S.-led invasion five years ago.

See a noxious volcano blazing, a steaming sacrifice, uncanny underwater robots, Europe's biggest waterfall turned blue, and more.

Fabrics found in the tomb of an ancient Maya queen rival modern textiles in their complexity and quality, scientists say.

About 150,000 years ago, humankind split into small groups—living apart for a hundred thousand years before "reuniting" and migrating out of Africa, a new gene study says.

Hundreds of prehistoric dogs found buried throughout the Southwest show that canines played a key role in the spiritual life of ancient Americans, new research suggests.