To Ringbauer’s surprise, people from Mediterranean outposts of Phoenician culture—also known as Punic people—shared no ...

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.

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

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

While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...

A groundbreaking discovery at an Italian paleontological site has shed new light on the history of dinosaurs in the ...

Nugus, just west of Alexandria, is shaking up long-held beliefs about the Egyptian Nile Delta. Beneath the known Hellenistic ...

According to this theory, oceanic water rushed faster than a speeding car down a kilometre-high slope towards the empty Mediterranean Sea, excavating a skyscraper-deep trough on its way.

In a paper published in Nature, new evidence shows that hunter-gatherers were crossing at least 100 kilometers (km) of open water to reach the Mediterranean island of Malta 8,500 years ago, a thousand ...

New research published in the journal Nature today (Wednesday 9 th April), shows that hunter-gatherers crossed at least 100km of open water to reach the Mediterranean island of Malta 8,500 years ago, ...

New research reveals a surprising link between the ancient tectonic history of oceanic plates and their fate as they subduct into Earth’s mantle. Compositional anomalies, formed millions of years ago, ...

A mysterious underwater structure off the coast of Japan has some experts wondering if we've seriously underestimated ancient civilizations. Known as the Yonaguni Monument, 82 feet (24.99 meters) ...