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Two ancient curses depicting the goddess Hekate with snakes coming out of her head.
22 May 2012, 08:35 AM ET
One of the curses targets a senator and shows a deity with snakes slithering from her head.
Two ancient curses depicting the goddess Hekate with snakes coming out of her head.
22 May 2012, 07:48 AM ET
The curses depict what may be the goddess Hekate with snakes coming out of her head.
Ancient egyptian ring
21 May 2012, 12:15 PM ET
The Egyptian earring was found in a horde of jewelry hidden for thousands of years.
The Egyptian sun god Ra
17 May 2012, 04:49 PM ET
The solar deities who bring light to myths and legend.
Two 16th-century books by Erasmus, showing two different kinds of censorship.
15 May 2012, 08:54 AM ET
Two censors used very different methods to censor Erasmus.
Two 16th-century books by Erasmus, showing two different kinds of censorship.
15 May 2012, 08:07 AM ET
16th-century censors blotted out anti-Catholic statements by one author in two very different ways.
14 May 2012, 03:04 PM ET
Isaac Netwon is known for his work on gravity. But his biography is full of interesting inventions and other facts, plus quotes oft-recited today.
A carved vulva found at Abri Castanet
14 May 2012, 03:00 PM ET
Images of the oldest-known rock art in Europe.
A carved vulva found at Abri Castanet
14 May 2012, 03:00 PM ET
Anthropologists discover 37,000-year-old carvings in France.
Lizzie Williams, implicated as a suspect in the Whitechapel murders in John Morris's book "Jack The Ripper: The Hand Of A Woman."
11 May 2012, 11:52 AM ET
A new book argues that the infamous serial murders in Victorian London were perpetrated by a woman.
Two young geisha with traditional hairstyles.
10 May 2012, 07:28 PM ET
How hair defines us.
Two young geisha with traditional hairstyles.
10 May 2012, 06:30 PM ET
Iconic hairstyles that defined a time, place or culture.
The Mayan King found on the Xultun murals.
10 May 2012, 01:56 PM ET
Mayan 'wall calendar' doesn't count down to the end of the world.
The excavation of a shrine in the 3,000-year-old city of Khirbet Qeiyafa near Jerusalem.
10 May 2012, 09:17 AM ET
Archaeologists are excavating sites and artifacts that date back to Biblical times.
The excavation of a shrine in the 3,000-year-old city of Khirbet Qeiyafa near Jerusalem.
09 May 2012, 06:13 PM ET
An excavation in a 3,000-year-old city yields evidence of ancient religion.
Fetus in utero by Leonardo da Vinci.
08 May 2012, 12:10 PM ET
Leonardo da Vinci was an anatomist 100 years ahead of his time, but he got one major thing wrong.
Leonardo da Vinci's sketches of shoulders and feet
08 May 2012, 10:57 AM ET
Beautiful anatomical sketches by Leonardo da Vinci
Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, June 1940.
06 May 2012, 07:10 PM ET
... and had semen injections to boost libido.
Shown above, a statue of Columbus in Lavagna, Genova, Italy.
05 May 2012, 03:52 PM ET
A winding investigation yields surprising clues about who may have discovered the New World, and when ...
woolly mammoths
03 May 2012, 02:53 PM ET
No one knows why ancient people built Stonehenge.
02 May 2012, 10:41 AM ET
Research on Stonehenge's acoustics may shed light on how ancient people used it.
An overhead view of the Stonehenge monument in England.
02 May 2012, 09:31 AM ET
The 5,000-year-old concentric rings of stone slabs continues to inspire speculation.
Ötzi the Iceman's preserved blood cell.
01 May 2012, 07:01 PM ET
Blood found in Otzi the Iceman's wounds.
hair gel, ancient Egyptians, grooming, mummy
01 May 2012, 04:45 PM ET
How much do you know about mummification and mummies?
A 2,900-year-old mummy that shows signs of Hand-Schuller-Christian’s disease, a very rare condition that left him with lesions in his skull and spine.
27 April 2012, 12:38 PM ET
The ancient Egyptian man would've suffered from a rare cancerlike disease.
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