The return of Lake Manly to Death Valley, known commonly as the driest place in North America, highlights historic levels of ...

A study says the Ain Samiya goblet, found in 1970, depicts a moment of cosmic creation, challenging previous scholarly ...

Clues from a digital reconstruction of a lavish ancient home are changing how researchers understand Pompeii’s elite.

Archaeologists in Hungary have uncovered a 1,300-year-old warrior’s tomb containing one of only about 80 known Avar sabers, a ...

Cornwall has several stone circles, and as many as 800 sit across the United Kingdom, remnants of prehistoric people who ...

As far as kitchen staples, you don’t really get much better than olive oil. It can do it all—jazz up a salad, sauté vegetables, add a nice crisp to some noodles, and more. Humans have been using olive ...

Plant species mentioned in texts from the past 800 years hint the wooded grasslands of western India have been there since ...

The historical and archeological record upends the widespread belief that long-term incarceration belongs to the modern state.

Based on genetic material preserved in birch bark tar from Estonia, researchers found that the teen likely had brown hair and ...

Archaeologists in Turkey have just uncovered a shopping list,one that’s 3,500 years old. The discovery, made at the ancient ...

"Some of our ancestors were very skilled observers." A team of international researchers say they've uncovered new data on ...

Earth's atmosphere might have contributed to the origin of life more than previously thought. In a study published in the ...