Fire destroyed the historic Quebec City Armory Friday night. The building contained what is believed to have been the largest suspended wood ceiling in Canada.
Sculptures recently discovered in Guatemala, including one that may depict the first Maya king, may be a clue to the birth of the Maya culture, archaeologists say.
Medieval-era skulls unearthed from the Tower of London represent the oldest confirmed Barbary lions, a subspecies that has died out in the wild, DNA reveals.
Though bans and taxes on plastic bags remain controversial, many countries and companies are taking to reusable totes to improve their images and help protect the environment.
Forty years after Martin Luther King, Jr., was shot, Jesse Jackson and another witness to the assassination return to the Tennessee scene and remember the event.
An ancient Aztec system of arithmetic, including symbols of hearts, hands, and arrows, has been deciphered, revealing a painfully meticulous tax code perhaps familiar to many today.
The appearance of developing countries with no history of whaling at meetings of the International Whaling Commission has anti-whalers crying foul at Japan's alleged attempts to buy pro-whaling votes.
Scientists have unearthed a pristinely preserved statue of Queen Tiye—the favorite wife of pharaoh Amenhotep III—in ancient Egypt's largest funerary complex.
A 12-foot-tall (3.6-meter-tall) colossus of Queen Tiye—the influential main wife of noted pharaoh Amenhotep III—has been unearthed at a sprawling temple complex in Luxor.
