Some of the recent advances in the quest to catch a whiff of history are featured in the new book Scents of Arabia: ...

A certified metal detectorist has made a groundbreaking discovery near Leipzig, Germany, uncovering the oldest coin ever found in Saxony. The 2,200-year-old Celtic gold coin, known as a "rainbow cup" ...

Digging into the dry soil of a field in southern Germany, archaeologists hit some rocks and painstakingly unearthed a massive stone structure. They’d expected to find something at this site — but what ...

Looking at DNA gleaned from ancient remains, researchers identified at least eight previously unknown populations of early Europeans. Two 14,000-year-old skulls, one male and one female, found in ...

This 2007 photo provided by researchers shows the end of a wooden hunting spear estimated to be about 200,000 years old discovered in a coal mine in the German town of Schöningen. (C. S.