History isn’t set in stone—quite literally. Every year, archaeologists unearth artifacts and uncover sites that force us to reconsider what we thought we knew about human civilization. These ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient civilizations were dropping technological bombshells long before Silicon Valley existed. Just this year, archaeologists in ...

Incredibly, scientists and mathematicians in ancient Greece made some of the most significant astronomical discoveries centuries ago.

When it comes to ancient Egypt, archaeologists never know what they might find – and visitors are bound to be dazzled by the displays in the recently opened Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo. In recent ...

Five theatrical masks discovered at an ancient Turkish site are dated to the time of the Roman Empire. The masks were found alongside a 5,000-seat theater built by the Romans in the first century C.E.

In school, history often comes packaged in tidy chapters and predictable timelines, but let’s be honest, real history is anything but neat. It’s messy, dramatic, filled with surprises, and often way ...

The summaries below were drafted with the help of AI tools and edited by journalists in our News division. All linked stories were reported, written and edited by McClatchy journalists. Throughout ...

Romanian man Marius Mangeac said he had no idea he would come "face to face with history" that day Marius Mangeac A man recently discovered nearly 1,500 silver coins from ancient Rome while hiking in ...

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took this selfie at a location nicknamed "Mary Anning" after a 19th century English paleontologist. This was the site of the chemical experiment uncove ...

Scientists edge closer to answering Mars’ biggest question: Did life ever exist on the red planet? Here's the latest from two new finds.