The year’s most notable findings also include insights into dog and sheep domestication and a new species of manta ray in the ...

“Our findings combined with prior research indicate that opium use was more than accidental or sporadic in ancient Egyptian ...

You have probably seen the images of the surface of Mars, beamed back by NASA's rovers. What if there were a time machine ...

A $2.3 million restoration is using advanced laser technology to clean and preserve the 1,840-year-old Rome’s Column of Marcus Aurelius.

A humungous shark that lived 115 million years ago surpassed the size of modern-day great whites, paleontologists discovered ...

Language is one of the most resilient components of culture. Though many languages have disappeared over the course of ...

Scientists have uncovered ancient wolf remains on a small Baltic island where wolves could only have been brought by humans.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has brought ancient languages to life, such as Ancient Greek and Old English, by demonstrating ...

Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, often described as the West's first scientist, believed the whole Earth was suspended on ...

Archaeologists and law enforcement have spent years untangling the story behind a carved stone monument that quietly surfaced ...

Extending roughly 670 km along a south-west to north-east axis, the Aravalli Range stretches from the Delhi Ridge through ...

Along a nine-mile stretch of river between two waterfalls in the Australian rainforest lives a tiny fish that’s been there for millions of years, hiding between rocks along the riverbank by day and ...