These ancient structures still stand - but the people who built them remain a mystery that history can’t fully explain.

Erich von Däniken, the Swiss author whose books on the extraterrestrial origins of ancient civilizations brought him both ...

Researchers across the globe put on their sleuthing hats this year to provide answers to questions that have lingered from ...

The oldest known cremation pyre in Africa is shedding light on the complex funeral rites of ancient hunter-gatherers 9,500 years ago.

From the mid-second century b.c. to the late first century a.d., the armies of China’s Han Dynasty (206 b.c.–a.d. 220) defended their territory against the marauding forces of the Xiongnu Empire, a ...

Hunter-gatherers thrived in Florida for more than eight millennia before they began to make pottery around 2600 b.c., during the Late Archaic period. This invention seems to have dramatically changed ...

Dorothy, in Ms. Benedict’s telling, feels slighted by her male colleagues in London’s Detection Club, a real-life group of British mystery writers. She and four other female authors—Agatha Christie, ...

Diego Pineda has been a devout storyteller his whole life. He has self-published a fantasy novel and a book of short stories, and is actively working on publishing his second novel. A lifelong fan of ...

The author of the City Spies series chooses 7 crime novels that invite young readers to discover the culprit before the characters do. By James Ponti James Ponti is the Edgar Award-winning author of ...