One night in 373 BCE, the earth beneath the Greek city of Helike groaned and cracked. As homes crumbled and temples collapsed ...

A joint team of archaeologists, chronologists, geologists, and paleontologists have successfully dated a hoard of wooden ...

A new study has uncovered evidence that a giant marine reptile from the Early Jurassic period used stealth to hunt its prey in deep or dark waters—much like owls on land today.

The discovery of more than 15,000 kilometers of ancient riverbeds on Mars suggests that the Red Planet may once have been much wetter than previously thought.

The "intriguing new" rock engraving was found on the west bank of the Nile River near Aswan in November 2022, during a survey ...

A new study on the ancient Greek city of Helike shows how repeated earthquakes transformed the landscape and forced ...

Science has shown that anyone can attain a super memory by using and ancient Greek and Roman technique called "memory palace." ...

Scientists at a Denver museum stumbled onto the oldest and deepest-known dinosaur fossils unearthed in the city when drilling ...

"Humans picked up some Neanderthal DNA through interbreeding, while the Neanderthal population, always fairly small, was ...

Ancient DNA has revealed links between the cultures of Egypt and Mesopotamia. Researchers sequenced whole genomes from the ...

New research suggests the engraving, which shows an elite individual sitting in a boat, may be up to 5,100 years old ...