Nestled in the Qalamoun mountains, about 56 kilometers northeast of Damascus, the historic Syrian town of Maaloula is one of ...

Poland detained a Russian archaeologist who works on an ancient site in Crimea, which Russia seized in 2014. Ukraine calls ...

The Hjortspring boat carried warriors on an attempted attack of a Danish island over 2,000 years ago. Archaeologists have new ...

Researchers have discovered the earliest known instance of human-created fire, which took place in the east of England 400,000 years ago. The new discovery, in the village of Barnham, pushes the ...

Repeated storms from September through November have revived a prehistoric lake in one of the driest places on our planet.

For the first time, scientists have mapped vast, continent-scale river drainage systems on Mars — ancient networks that may ...

From ancient Rome to medieval Spain to Renaissance Venice, generations of mariners have relied on biscotti as a source of ...

The Webb space telescope observed a supernova that took place when the universe was 730 million years old, setting a new ...

Mystery behind 2,400-year-old Danish canoe that carried 80 warriors finally unravelled - Boat found to have been waterproofed ...

Archaeologists uncovered a Pompeii project that reveals how ancient Romans used hot-mixing technology to create durable self-healing concrete ...

The study, published in the journal Nature, is based on a years-long examination of a reddish patch of sediment excavated at ...