A new independent film shot on the mystical slopes of Mount Shasta is making its way to Southern Oregon. The (Luh-mer-ee-in) Lemurian Candidate, a comedy blending backpacking, personal healing, and ...

NASA's Mars rover Perseverance has uncovered rocks in a dry river channel that may hold potential signs of ancient microscopic life, scientists reported Wednesday. They stressed that in-depth analysis ...

Archaeologists uncover 59 sealed mummy coffins at Saqqara, Egypt, many believed to hold the remains of ancient priests. This remarkable discovery sheds new light on Egypt’s buried past and its sacred ...

A new study suggests a habitable past and signs of ancient microbial processes on Mars. Led by NASA and featuring key analysis from Imperial College London, the work has uncovered a range of minerals ...

Archaeologists in Romania have unearthed an elite Roman family's ancient treasure, buried for centuries beneath the remains of a millennia-old city. The discovery, announced by the National History ...

Noh was once the entertainment of medieval warriors. Today, remote Sado Islanders embrace one of the world’s oldest surviving types of drama. Shinobu Kamiyama, center, playing the tormented ghost of a ...

History has seen many waves of Egyptomania but, until the 19th century, scholars remained baffled by the many repeated symbols and motifs wrapped around every new find, from majestic monuments to ...

An international team led by researchers at the Center for Paleogenetics, has uncovered microbial DNA preserved in woolly and steppe mammoth remains dating back more than one million years. The ...

Researchers from France, China, the UK, and Greece revealed that the Petralona cranium is at least 286,000 years old, placing it firmly in the Middle Pleistocene era. A new scientific study has shed ...

Archaeologists in drought-hit Iraq have discovered 40 ancient tombs after water levels in the country's largest reservoir declined, an antiquities official said Saturday. The tombs, believed to be ...

Scientists have finally uncovered direct genetic evidence of Yersinia pestis — the bacterium behind the Plague of Justinian — in a mass grave in Jerash, Jordan. This long-sought discovery resolves a ...

An ancient crocodile relative that lived around 70 million years ago was probably such a formidable predator that it could have eaten medium-sized dinosaurs for breakfast. “Its large teeth had ...