Nathan Falde

A recent discovery in Gibraltar has unveiled one of the most advanced manufacturing sites of the ancient world: a Neanderthal tar distillation oven dating back 65,000 years.

In the quiet and peaceful village of Aquileia, in northern Italy near the Adriatic Sea coast, archaeologists from the Austrian Archaeological Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) found

History is full of inventive, albeit disturbing, methods of making people squirm, confess, or simply regret their life choices.

Astronomers have observed stars that are accelerating through space at a shockingly rapid pace.

For centuries, the Polabian Slavs lived in their ancestral homeland around the Elbe River, in what is today Germany.

A groundbreaking discovery in southern Arizona has unveiled the oldest known firearm in the continental United States.

Anna K. Behrensmeyer, Kevin Hatala & Purity Kiura / The Conversation Human footprints stir the imagination.

As genetic research into the characteristics of ancient DNA has increased, scientists have uncovered a wealth of valuable information about how prehistoric people really lived.In a study conducted by

Nathan Falde graduated from American Public University in 2010 with a Bachelors Degree in History, and has a long-standing fascination with ancient history, historical mysteries, mythology, astronomy and esoteric topics of all types. He is a full-time freelance writer from...

The site of one of Alexander the Great’s most important battles, the Battle of the Granicus River (334 BC), has been found by historians and archaeologists in the province of Çanakkale in northwestern Turkey.