History

Mysterious stone structures that dot lava fields and deserts across Saudi Arabia may be some of the oldest monuments in the world, scientists say.

No, Churchill just really wanted Brits to eat more carrots.

Researchers scanned the mummified corpses of a cat, a snake and a bird, revealing the grim details of their deaths

Several clues indicate that a field near Tel Aviv is the site of the 1191 battle.

Identity, politics and good, old fashioned resistance to change.

New research reveals a plot by Henry VIII's chief minister, Thomas Cromwell to change the balance of power on the Great Bible's front page, just a year before his execution for high treason.

In 7000 B.C., a kiln-like pit became the site of the earliest know human cremation in the Near East.

The remains of several timber circles constructed over 4,500 years ago have been discovered at the Perdigões complex archaeological site in Portugal.

A groundbreaking heart transplant in Virginia in 1968, one of the first in the world, was performed using the heart of a Black patient that was taken without his family's knowledge.

White surgeons racing to perform a pioneering transplant in 1968 took a Black patient's heart — but didn't tell his family.

Fire influenced the evolution of humanity.

Today's humans carry the genes of an ancient, unknown ancestor, left there by hominin species intermingling perhaps a million years ago.

Archaeologists have found Iron Age temples and medieval structures in Northern Ireland.

Spanish records dating to the 16th century hinted that the Inca people performed underwater ritual offerings, and archaeologists have finally found one that's still intact.

A clay head that dates back almost 3,000 years may be a rare depiction of Yahweh, or God. But other archaeologists aren't convinced.

A restoration worker kept a chunk of Stonehenge more than 60 years ago. He returned it last year and now the stone has solved a long-standing mystery.

Recent restoration work of the multi-panel artwork "Adoration of the Mystic Lamb" corrected prior restoration on a sheep representing the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.