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

The Aswan Quarry hides a colossal unfinished stone whose age and method of cutting challenge the official dynastic timeline. Its size suggests engineering knowledge beyond what early Egyptians are ...

The fossil and genetic evidence agree that modern humans originated in Africa. The most genetically diverse human populations ...

National Geographic Explorer Peter Campell provides an inside look at the early stages of a heritage crime investigation.

Archaeologists have uncovered the submerged ruins of a medieval Silk Road city beneath Lake Issyk-Kul. Located in ...

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new study based on analyses of ...

In the past twenty years, major technological advances in extracting and analyzing DNA have transformed the ability to ...

Stone explores the FDA's decision to overhaul boxed warnings on menopausal hormone therapy - and what that means for Irish women.

The UK shadow justice secretary on embracing populism, his political ambitions — and whether there will be an alliance with ...

Today, the stunning set of buildings that stands in Khairabad, about 80 kilometres from Lucknow, is the result of Makka ...

The ByWard Market is Ottawa’s oldest commercial area and the site of one of the city’s first public markets. It led to the first permanent European settlement of Bytown, which would become Canada’s ...

What began as a simple petition seeking permission to light a lamp in Tamil Nadu ended up revealing deeper layers of ...