Modern Celtic languages – including Irish, Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, Manx, Breton and Cornish – all derive from these earlier tongues, and similarities remain visible. Dr Rodway, senior lecturer in ...

A new radiocarbon study has clarified the timing of the colossal Thera eruption, placing it before Egypt’s New Kingdom.

A 2,700-year-old eclipse has scientists revisiting Earth’s history. Discover what ancient Chinese records revealed.

The enigmatic Maya calendar synchronizes all visible planets, thus solving an astronomical puzzle that had remained unsolved ...

The area around Boeslunde had already yielded 10 gold oath rings and approximately 2,200 gold spirals in previous excavations. Museum director and archaeologist Lone Claudi-Hansen explained their ...

The Passy-style tombs are a dramatic departure from earlier Neolithic burials not just in terms of their scale, but in what ...

Paleontologists have found tens of thousands of dinosaur tracks in South America, which offers evidence as to which species were traveling via an ancient coastline.

Abiotic chemistry in Earth’s atmosphere could have generated biologically important organosulfur molecules as life was ...

The Indus Valley civilization, located in present-day Pakistan and India, went through four periods of intense drought, which ...

A group of climbers in Italy uncovered ancient footprints believed to be left by a stampeding herd of sea turtles. What ...

The Jomon people—who eventually settled in what is now Japan—share little, if any, genetic connection to the Denisovan population that’s spread throughout Eurasia.

For many readers, Agatha Christie is synonymous with Christmas due to her use of the holidays and winter to good effect in ...