Across the world’s continental shelves, scientists are racing to reconstruct an ancient landscape that once stretched where ...

The suggestion that ancient Greeks reached America before Columbus may seem far-fetched, but certain researchers think ...

They’ve been called “bubble chasers,” and “seep seekers,” though they sometimes call themselves “flare hunters.” They’re a ...

Far below the surface of the Red Sea, in a region long associated with the Biblical story of Moses parting the waters, scientists have stumbled onto a set of “death pools” that look more like science ...

Remember party lines? Switchboards? Yellow Pages? The traditional telephone is almost gone, but its cultural impact deserves ...

Historians and divers are trying to retrieve prehistoric clues from beneath the waves—but they have to act fast.

The ancient Antikythera Mechanism acts like an astronomical calculator, but its full purpose remains a mystery.

Archaeologists recently retrieved early medieval weapons from a lake in Poland — relics believed to be connected to the country's first rulers. The Museum of the First Piasts at Lednica announced the ...

A recent study has shown that the human ancestral DNA plays a crucial role in defining an individual's longevity.

An ancient fingerprint and several chemical clues from a 2,400-year-old sea raiders' boat are revealing secrets about where some mysterious attackers came from during the Iron Age. When you purchase ...

An Italian archaeological mission has discovered the remains of a sun temple belonging to an ancient Egyptian king near Cairo, the Egyptian antiquities ministry said. The temple of King Nyuserre is ...

Archaeologists have found the original location of a fresco fragment that was looted from Pompeii and later repatriated to Italy from the U.S. in 2023. The exciting new discovery means that the ...