In 2009, while examining an old quarry, Charles Ver Straeten, the curator of sedimentary rocks at the New York State Museum, ...

Lungfish’ would have been a common sight in the Devonian period, about 400 million years ago. Remarkably, six species of this ...

On Madagascar, rock-cut structures at the remote inland site have been dated to around 1,000 years ago, a study said.

An analysis of around a dozen teenagers who lived during the Paleolithic reveals that they hit puberty around the same time ...

The ancient Greeks were well versed in the spectrum of gender and queerness, often taking up the theme of sexuality with ...

The Earth: a ringed planet, much like Saturn, surrounded by a hula hoop of asteroids. The summit of Mount Everest: a tropical ...

Vases found in Guatemala offer rare physical proof of tobacco use among ancient Maya, but with a twist: This time, they didn’t inhale.

Egypt’s second-largest ancient temple is getting a facelift. For three years, experts have been carefully cleaning and ...

The Hellenistic period was a veritable cauldron of ambition, betrayal, and sheer bloodlust. It was an era marked by dramatic ...

The temple, which measures around 450 feet in length and roughly 250 feet wide is perhaps the best-preserved in Egypt.

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has confirmed a second season of its controversial Ancient Apocalypse series with Graham Hancock, who will ...

The woodblocks of a massive trove of precious documents compiled by an Edo-period (1603-1867) scholar have been preserved in ...