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 ...

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

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

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 ...