High in the cloud forests of the northeastern Peruvian Andes, where vegetation and altitude combine to conceal secrets, archaeologists have uncovered a breathtaking rediscovery: over 100 previously un ...

While other ancient animals seem trapped in evolutionary stasis, others were quietly in the process of revolutionary transformation.

Beneath the surface of present-day western Honduras lie the ruins of Copán—an archaeological site that once stood as a vital city in the classic Maya world, situated at the crossroads between Central ...

New research brings together 7,000 years of history in South Arabia to show how ancient pastoralists changed placement and construction of monuments over time in the face of environmental and cultural ...

On the 27th of May, 1703, in the midst of the mist-shrouded marshes of the delta of the Neva River, Tsar Peter the Great made ...

A new study published by archaeologists at Bournemouth University has revealed that the bodies recovered from a ‘war-cemetery ...

In the dark rock shelter of Riparo Tagliente in Italy's Lessini Mountains, the fragmentary skeleton of a young man, interred ...

Deep in the green border of Kenya and Tanzania is a volcanic crater lake that quietly keeps an ancient geophysical journal.

On that cold, quiet morning of May 29, 1453, the jewel of the Eastern Roman Empire, girded by titanic Theodosian walls and the Bosphorus Strait, a bastion of Christianity in the East for more than a t ...

In the desolate land of northwest China's Xinjiang province, archaeologists have unearthed something that reveals early ...

On May 26, 1940, the British government launched Operation Dynamo, dubbed after the dynamo room at Dover Castle where the operation was planned. Vice Admiral Bertram Ramsay was given an impossible ...

In northwestern Arabia's Tabuk province, blowing in the sands of a long-forgotten oasis, archaeologists have found the world's oldest known evidence for the ritual application of Peganum harmala, othe ...