There's something about ancient civilizations that fascinates us even thousands of years later. Their architecture, ...

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Researchers have dated vertebrae from a massive prehistoric shark thought to have ruled the waves off northern Australia back ...

The study bolsters one hypothesis of when people arrived at the landmass that became Australia and other islands, and ...

Traditional sources and scholars have long hypothesized the location of this sacred chest. But tracing its whereabouts is ...