Therapsids, the ancient relatives of mammals, once roamed Earth in great numbers during the middle to late Permian period.

Two continents collided millions of years ago, forming a bridge that changed Earth's climate system and triggered one of history's greatest animal migrations.

A wine shop sign in the ruins of the ancient Roman city Herculaneum’s main street. The sign tells viewers to 'come to the sign of the bowls' (ad cucumas). Some of the wines also have vintage dates.

Sanity seems conspicuously absent from his actions. What mind, driven by a profound disregard for history and human dignity, ...

The Making of Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis: "The main research was done sitting on a couch watching the movies ...

The Phoenician culture emerged in the Bronze Age city-states of the Levant, developing prominent innovations such as the ...

To study this history, population geneticist Harald Ringbauer at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in ...

Latnija cave discoveries show Mesolithic humans crossed 100 km of sea to reach Malta 1,000 years earlier than previously ...

The ancient Greek city of Thebes played a central role in Greek history, appearing in many of the legends of Greek mythology.

In one of Europe’s oldest cities, a marvel of modern engineering now rumbles beneath ancient streets.

The inhabitants of Carthage were long thought to have derived from Levantine Phoenicians. But an eight-year study suggests ...