A new study shows ancient Maya communities transported live dogs over long distances and fed them maize-rich diets, revealing ...

Brazilian scientists have discovered glassy fragments, known as tektites, revealing evidence of a massive extraterrestrial impact event that occurred 6.3 million years ago.

Imagine a country with no rivers, no freshwater lakes, and no springs. Now, pack 65,000 people onto it. Add half a million ...

A crowd of Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum faithfuls gathered in front of the 100-year-old Pioneer Hall building of the ...

The Atlantis story originates in Plato’s dialogues as a moral tale about hubris and decline, not an archaeological report.

Credit: NASA. The dark plains of the Moon, known as maria, were once thought of as a geological retirement home. These vast ...

A HIGHLAND museum has lined up two exhibitions and a photo walk for a season opener — with admission waived for the day to celebrate the occasion. The award-winning Gairloch Museum will be throwing ...

These dips in the gravitational field are formally known as gravity anomalies, but they're more commonly called “gravity holes". The largest is found in the middle of the Indian Ocean, spanning over 3 ...

For centuries, the windows of the most luxurious villas of Pompeii, the baths of Emperor Caligula, and the greenhouses where ...

Long before agriculture, humans were transforming Europe’s wild landscapes. Advanced simulations show that hunting and fire use by Neanderthals and Mesolithic hunter-gatherers reshaped forests and ...

Recent advances in biomolecular archaeology have revealed that ancient objects can retain the molecular fingerprints of past aromatic practices. These molecules provide unprecedented insight into ...