The cache included swords, spears, lances and chainmail. Researchers think these items may have been buried as part of a ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth floated the possibility of a third Jewish temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, ...

For the past two years, citizen scientists and scholars have been working to reveal the previously hidden texts of the ...

When Belinda Temple was found brutally murdered in early 1999, the entire community was shaken to its core, especially her loved ones. While all the fingers pointed towards her husband, David Temple, ...

Nepal will increase the permit fees for climbing Mount Everest by more than 35%, making the world’s tallest peak more expensive for mountaineers for the first time in nearly a decade ...

In December, workers installing natural gas pipelines near Athens uncovered a Roman-era statue of Hermes buried upright in a brick-lined pit near the Acropolis. Thessaloniki weeks ago unveiled a ...

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Shortly after Musk made the gesture, the term "Roman salute" started trending online. While it appears similar to the Nazi salute associated with Adolf Hitler, the gesture has ancient roots.

On Monday President Donald Trump revived that dispute when he changed Denali's name back to Mount McKinley in an executive order Monday. "A short time from now, we will be restoring the name of a ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday renaming Denali—the highest peak in North America—to Mount McKinley, the Alaska mountain’s name prior to 2015, a move he has suggested ...