History Archive
09 April 2013, 11:08 AM ET
The megalith was likely built 4,000 years ago and then covered by the sea.
08 April 2013, 11:30 AM ET
The inside story of the Gospel of Judas.
05 April 2013, 05:51 PM ET
Queen Hapshepsut was the first female pharaoh, but she ruled Egypt as a man.
05 April 2013, 02:51 PM ET
A wine-pressing complex was uncovered among the ruins of an ancient Byzantine settlement.
05 April 2013, 12:25 PM ET
Mummy's curse rumors began 90 years ago today.
04 April 2013, 03:46 PM ET
Changes in the environment likely made life too difficult for Peru's Moche.
03 April 2013, 01:00 PM ET
The ancient Plutonium, a poisonous cave found in Turkey, was believed in Greco-Roman mythology to be the portal to hell.
03 April 2013, 12:42 PM ET
Count Pierre Dejean may have been a general in Napoleon Bonaparte's army but he was perhaps more intimidating as a beetle collector.
02 April 2013, 05:42 PM ET
Chemists cracked the recipe of Maya Blue, the paint used on pottery and human sacrifices alike.
01 April 2013, 08:19 AM ET
Child and adult bones suggest ancient humans and Neanderthals crossed paths there.
29 March 2013, 05:25 PM ET
March 29 marks the anniversary of when a massive ice jam reduced the mighty Niagara Falls to a trickle in 1848, a rare phenomena that lasted for nearly 40 hours
29 March 2013, 02:30 PM ET
From his birthplace in Nazareth to his crucifixion at the hands of the Roman, here are some facts about the historical Jesus.
29 March 2013, 01:18 PM ET
Time and again, tsunamis remade societies around the world.
28 March 2013, 05:57 PM ET
Traces of two awkward birds that have become emblems of extinction are headed for the auction block next month.
28 March 2013, 04:22 PM ET
The burial shroud might date from the Roman era.
28 March 2013, 03:14 PM ET
The Harvard forest, like forests across the country is working overtime to absorb the excess CO2 being produced by humans and researchers at Harvard are looking at how that affects the health of these environments.
28 March 2013, 01:29 PM ET
A neanderthal skeleton unearthed in Italy shows interbreeding with humans, the first such known hybrid.
28 March 2013, 11:28 AM ET
Great violin masters such as Stradivari were imitating the female soprano voice in their instruments
27 March 2013, 04:21 PM ET
A recently surfaced copy of Andreas Vesalius' anatomy textbook has more than a thousand hand-written notes and corrections by the author himself.
27 March 2013, 01:42 PM ET
Group protesting reburial plans says they'll file a legal challenge.
27 March 2013, 12:26 PM ET
The current period of geologic time is the Holocene Epoch, also known as the Anthropocene Epoch.
26 March 2013, 04:29 PM ET
Some remarkable traces of Stone Age life were unearthed recently in northern Israel, including a carving of a penis that's more than 6,000 years old.
26 March 2013, 04:06 PM ET
Exceptional fossils provide vision of how 390-million-year-old animals stayed out of sight.
26 March 2013, 01:08 PM ET
Follow ancient passageways to a distant time in this fascinating wallpaper showing Aztec Ruins National Monument in New Mexico. Explore West Ruin, a center of ancestral Pueblo society that once housed over 500 masonry rooms.
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