Mentions of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise in ancient Chinese poetry have revealed missing information ...

For more than two thousand years, people have mapped the stars. But a new study claims one of the world’s oldest surviving ...

According to a controversial new study the world's oldest star map, known as the Star Manual of Master Shi, was created in ...

In the twilight depths of the Gulf of Mexico, about as deep down as a football field is long, U.S. Navy divers carefully snip ...

It was already getting dark and I sat down to enjoy [the] sunset,” Berghuis said. “And then, right beside me, lay this fossil that reminded me so much of the only Dutch Neanderthal. This is a ...

Ancient military fortifications dating back to the Ptolemaic and Roman eras of Egyptian history were recently uncovered by ...

The findings shed light on the ancient people who lived in western Hungary, whose identity continues to confound scholars.

A study led by the University of Leicester has linked fossilized tracks of flying reptiles to the specific animals that created them. Fossilized footprints dating back more than 160 million years have ...

Ancient artefacts from Gaza – amphorae, statues, mosaics, funerary steles and more – tell the story of 5,000 years of a ...

The ancient Greek city-state of Syracuse on the eastern coast of Sicily started as a colony and became a Greek metropolis.

To reconstruct Viking seafaring, Jarrett took to the sea himself. He piloted clinker-built boats along Norway’s western coast, including vessels like the fembøring and the faering —traditional designs ...

The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has asked archaeologist Amarnath Ramakrishna, who unearthed an ancient civilisation ...