Researchers have uncovered microbial evidence in the remains of Napoleon’s soldiers from the 1812 Russian retreat. Genetic ...

Neanderthals were meat eaters, but new analyses show that their diets included other morsels. Neanderthals, our extinct ...

When you think of ancient Egypt, you might imagine towering pyramids, majestic temples, and the noseless Great Sphinx of Giza ...

Mayan language experts have decoded the name of a previously unknown Maya queen on a stone inscription discovered last year.

For centuries, Rapanui oral traditions said the statues “walked” from the quarry—but Western scholars dismissed this as myth, assuming instead that log rollers were used. Research by Dr. Terry Hunt ...

"A lot of field work, especially paleontology, is trying your hardest not to break very important things," he said.

Overall, the study tells us that by 1021 CE, the Vikings were already in North America. They could have been there earlier, ...

University of Sheffield and University College London researchers have made the first successful detection of estrogen, ...

The Fermi paradox goes like this: given the immense scale of the universe – trillions of galaxies, each with millions upon ...

New research uncovers how ancient tides shaped the rise of Sumer. A newly released study questions established beliefs about how urban civilization first emerged in ancient Mesopotamia, proposing that ...

Excavations are shedding light on what life was like at the ancient site, which may have once housed hundreds of soldiers at ...

EASTER ISLAND (WKRC) - Researchers now claim to have solved the enigma of how these statues were transported, they "walked." Although they appear to be just heads, many have full bodies buried by ...