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 ...

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

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 ...

Spring in the Arctic brings forth a plethora of peeps and downy hatchlings as millions of birds gather to raise their young.The same was true 73 million years ago, according to a paper featured on the ...

Long considered a disease brought to the Americas by European colonizers, leprosy may actually have a much older history on the American continent.Scientists from the Institut Pasteur, the CNRS, and t ...

On May 26, 1940, the British government launched Operation Dynamo, dubbed after the dynamo room at Dover Castle where the ...

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 ...

A new study published by archaeologists at Bournemouth University has revealed that the bodies recovered from a ‘war-cemetery’ previously attributed to the Roman Conquest of Britain at Maiden Castle I ...

On the hot days of late May 1588, the ports of Lisbon were heavy with the smell of pitch, pine, and the fervent hopes of a sacred mission.

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 spring of 1521, the Rhineland town as old as Rome, ‘Worms’, witnessed an event that was destined to alter the history of Christendom forever.