Warsaw's gorgeously reconstructed Old Town and, in its rising downtown, the new museum of modern art, by the New York–based ...

But there is no substitute for walking around the city, which is endlessly fascinating. Another relatively obscure attraction ...

Gold coins recovered from the “world's richest shipwreck”, the Spanish galleon San José, have revealed 300-year-old imagery including castles, lions, and a Jerusalem cross variation. Discovered off ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

The man (not named in reports from the time) sledgehammered his wall and found a tunnel behind it, and beyond that, more ...

French pop historian Vincent Lemire's illustrated tome makes some loaded choices in depicting the Jewish parts of history.

In a first, researchers have sequenced the complete genome of a man from ancient Egypt, and the results reveal that he had ...