Jim Thorpe, star of the 1912 Olympics, signs to play baseball with the New York Giants. 1914 — The Chicago White Sox and New York Giants play an exhibition game to promote baseball in Egypt. 1950 — ...

Sheep shaped human history for 12,000 years. Scientists traced their migration, domestication, and genetic evolution.

Archaeologists have uncovered a massive Bronze Age fortress called Dmanisis Gora in the Caucasus Mountains, revealing it is ...

The history of the Skating Club of Boston is the history of American figure skating – in good times and in bad. For more than ...

Ancient DNA has revealed new insights into how sheep have been intertwined with human livelihoods for over 11,000 years.

Lead pollution started peaking when the Romans took over the Aegean coastline.

Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution. Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland ...

The crescent-shaped island of Santorini is one of Greece’s most popular tourist destinations, drawing visitors from across ...

Last summer, an oil and gas company was conducting a survey in the waters off Israel's coast when their cameras spotted ...

Archaeologists in Italy found footprints of Pompeii inhabitants, revealing a dramatic flight from a bronze age Mount Vesuvius ...

Whilst out metal detecting earlier this month not far from his home in Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan, Matt, who works as a ...