The eruption of Santorini has long been linked to the fall of the Minoans. Does the evidence really support this conclusion, ...

A cold-ridden Lindsey Vonn vowed to bounce back in Saturday's downhill after her eagerly-awaited return to world championship skiing came to a disappointing, premature end in the super-G.

Brazil defender Marcelo has announced his retirement from football at the age of 36.

Three years ago, archaeologists were called to a 24-acre plot of land in central England. They were there on behalf of Bloor Homes, a housing development company, to search the land and make sure ...

Archaeologists discovered Bronze Age footprints near Pompeii, showing people and animals fleeing a Vesuvius eruption some 4,000 years ago.

New Zealand's Frozen Ferns record stand out performances at the world ice swimming champs in Italy, writes Dave Crampton.

Inspired by Famous Show ‘The Detectorists’, Filmmaker Stumbles on 3,000-Year-Old Bronze Age Ring and Silver Artifacts A ...

Here are eight athletes who, if they avoid mishaps along the way, could make a mark on the Milan-Cortina Olympics: Lindsey ...

Ancient-DNA analyses identify a Caucasus Lower Volga people as the ancient originators of Proto-Indo-European, the precursor ...

Ancient DNA analysis reveals that sheep were domesticated over 11,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent. By 8,000 years ago, ...

For decades, the leading theory for the ubiquity of Indo-European languages was that early farmers, living in a region known ...