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

The historical and archeological record upends the widespread belief that long-term incarceration belongs to the modern state ...

Lime granules trapped in ancient walls show Romans relied on a reactive hot-mix method to making concrete that could now ...

There's something about ancient civilizations that fascinates us even thousands of years later. Their architecture, ...

Record rainfall transforms Death Valley's Badwater Basin into rare shallow lake after months of heavy storms hit the ...

Libya's national museum, formerly known as As-Saraya Al-Hamra or the Red Castle, has reopened in Tripoli, allowing the public ...

Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose ...

Archaeologists finished excavating the most complete part ever discovered of the foundations of the walls, which surrounded ...

Ancient Greek oracles, omens, and sacred calendars shaped decisions from war to marriage and everything in between through ...

In the age of dinosaurs — before whales, great whites or the bus-sized megalodon — a monstrous shark prowled the waters off ...

A group of scientists are studying the Cyclades, an island group in Greece's Aegean Sea, looking for signs of early human ...

Scientists excavating the ruins of Pompeii have discovered a construction site left frozen in time by the eruption of Italy's ...