You might be surprised at how far back some of our...  ...!2. TOOTHPASTEDental hygiene was not high on most ancient people’s priority list, but the Egyptians...  ...RATERS (Image credit: JamesMacMillan)Evidence the ancient Greeks used cheese graters is in Aristophanes&rsq...  ...st of Greece’s Antik...

If a community abandons a town and leaves no writt...  ...re out a lot of things, but there are quite a few ancient abandoned cities that leave us with more question...

On the Mediterranean island of Sardinia, cave tombs were cut into the rocky hills around 5,000 years ago by the Ozieri people. The nickname "house of fairies" is modern nickname; they are officially named Domus de Janas,...

A 65-meter high minaret stands in Afghanistan,...  ...d calligraphy in more than one language. But this ancient and remote edifice is surrounded by the Hindu Kus...  ...ation Read more about the Minaret of Jam and the ancient multicultural city that once surrounded it. You'l...

Archaeologists have announced the discovery of the world's oldest winemaking facility. The winery was found in an Armenian cave near the village of Areni -the same cave where the oldest shoe ever was found last year. Car...

A team of archaeologists on the Greek island of Crete found a tool way older than what they expected to find. Thomas Strasser of the University of Providence and his crew hoped to find artifacts dating back as far as 11,...

A few days ago, you read about Clonehenges, ar...  ...not realize that Stonehenge is far from the only ancient stone circle in the UK, and there are some in Eur...

Here is a collection of 20 quirky, bizarre and historical maps, covering many areas of the world. War maps, demographic maps, William Clark's hand-drawn map, and the island of California. What?Believe it or not, explorer...

I live in a house that is over 100 years old. That's pretty old by US standards, but can you imagine living in a city that is 12,000 years old? That would be Damascus, Syria, with a population of four million people. W...