Today’s state of extreme economic inequality is a problem best approached with science — using it to make specific ...

Visigoth women may have worn eagle-shaped pins as a symbol of power. These two eagle-shaped pins were discovered in central ...

The defeat of the Persians in 334 B.C. at that location provided a monumental turning point in the success of Alexander and ...

An interdisciplinary research project on the development of the earliest forms of agriculture shows that early farming ...

About 12,000 years ago, a human living in the Arabian desert carved “incredibly beautiful” rock art into a cave’s wall. While we do not know the prehistoric artist’s inten ...

Researchers have virtually reconstructed a crushed and distorted 1 million-year-old human skull discovered in China. The newly restored cranium may have belonged to a relative of the mysterious ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Researchers have discovered life-size rock carvings of camels, gazelles and other animals in the Saudi ...

The lentils now grown in the Canary Islands have a history that stretches back almost 2,000 years on the site. This is shown in the very first genetic study of archaeological lentils, carried out by ...

A new study has uncovered the oldest written rejection of the Shroud of Turin, a religious relic purported to have been the linen wrapped around Jesus upon his death. A treatise by the theologian ...

A recent study offers proof of feasibility for using cosmic radiation detectors to discover underground spaces. The detectors identify muons—particles created when cosmic radiation collides with Earth ...

A team of archaeologists searching for Cleopatra’s tomb uncovered a sunken ancient port off the coast of Egypt, and they believe it may be linked to the iconic queen.

Between 2008 and 2014, scientists rappelled down cliffs to reach a dozen bearded vulture nests and begin analyzing what was ...