Most prehistoric Europeans had dark skin, hair and eyes well into the Iron Age, about 3,000 years ago, new research finds. Scientists found that the genes that cause lighter skin, hair and eyes ...

Some commuters in a cosmopolitan European city may be shocked to learn they’ve been walking over ancient skeletons for ... but so many traces of our history are hidden under the pavements ...

Ancient DNA extracted from a sediment core ... but historical documents began to record fish stocking in European high-mountain lakes during the 14th and 15th centuries CE. These records mostly ...

Rick Steves' Europe: Art of Ancient Greece Ancient Greece laid the foundations of Western art. Traveling from its sun-splashed isles to the rugged mainland to bustling Athens, we trace the rise of ...

With more people than ever touring Europe’s great ancient sites (including literally millions of sightseers on cruise ship excursions), congestion has become a major concern. If online ...

Two years later, after a class in ancient art history, I understood how Greek society was designed ... With more people than ever touring Europe’s great ancient sites (including literally millions of ...