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American Habits That Feel Normal At Home—But Shock Locals Abroad

Many well-intentioned Americans still make these mistakes when they are travelling overseas.
February 9, 2026 Peter Kinney

Americans abroad learn quickly that privacy and personal space aren’t the same as back home.

American travellers' notions of privacy and personal space get put to the test when they go overseas.
February 3, 2026 Jane O'Shea

Countries That Seem Relaxed—Until Tourists Accidentally Break One Of Their Strict Laws

Even the most relaxed and secure countries have surprisingly strict laws and local regulations that you must be aware of.
February 2, 2026 Sammy Tran

Archaeologists in a cave in the Czech Republic found pieces of a Hittite cuneiform tablet that raises questions about how and when it got there.

Archaeologists were stunned to discover fragments of rock displaying cuneiform writing in a cave in eastern Europe.
January 27, 2026 Penelope Singh
Red Cloud

The Only Native Leader To Win A War Against The United States

Chief Red Cloud defeated the U.S. Army through strategy and unity, forcing one of the only Native victories in American history.
January 12, 2026 Allison Robertson

Archaeologists in Egypt found hidden voids and a possible secret entrance to Giza’s third-largest pyramid.

Remote imaging has revealed the presence of a previously unknown void in Menkaure, the smallest of the Great Pyramids of Giza.
January 9, 2026 Penelope Singh

Archaeologists in Syria resumed the hunt for clues to a Bronze Age city’s downfall at the hands of mysterious invaders.

Archaeological research has resumed in one of Syria's most important Bronze Age sites.
January 6, 2026 Sasha Wren

Prehistoric handprints in European caves show missing fingertips, and the reason for it is absolutely disturbing.

For years, archaeologists have wondered why sections of fingers are missing from prehistoric painted hand stencils in European caves. A new theory offers one disturbing explanation.
December 26, 2025 Sasha Wren

A man in England with a metal detector discovered a gold pendant from the Tudor Era that marked the wedding of Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon.

A walk in a field with a metal detector uncovered an amazing relic left over from Tudor England: a gold pendant linked to the wedding of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. The discovery is an amazing addition to our knowledge of England's turbulent royal past.
January 5, 2026 Alex Summers

Archaeologists at a site in Turkey discovered an eerie 12,000-year-old statue of a human head that raises new questions about ancient ritual practice.

A new discovery in Turkey opens the possibility that human societies developed complex ritual practices far earlier than we ever previously thought.
December 31, 2025 Sasha Wren

Researchers linked the DNA of China’s mysterious hanging coffin builders to their modern descendants, and a “lost” culture has now been found.

Recent DNA research pinpointed the identity of the people in China who suspended their dead in coffins from canyon cliffs , showing a direct genetic link to the historic Bo people.
December 24, 2025 Miles Rook

Archaeologists in Turkey discovered a 2,200-year-old sundial that shows how the ancient Greeks marked the passage of the seasons.

Archaeologists in Turkey discovered an ancient sundial at the site of Aigai, an ancient Greek city in Aeolis.
December 22, 2025 Sasha Wren