Bathed in the soft light of morning, these mysterious stone structures stand as silent witnesses to a forgotten era. Surrounded by mountains and kissed by the rising sun, the ancient village invites ...

Researchers studied fossils, well-preserved remains and even a single fingerprint to solve some of history’s long-standing mysteries this year.

An ancient woman thought to have hailed from sub-Saharan Africa and therefore to have been the first known Black Briton actually had fairer skin and was from southern England, researchers using new ...

History is filled with powerful empires that seemed invincible until they weren't. Between roughly 1250 and 1150 BCE, major ...

Our hunter-gatherer ancestors have given us many things. They passed down mastery of fire for cooking and early survival ...

Long before modern telescopes, early astronomers mapped the heavens with math, myth, and sheer curiosity. This crossword quiz celebrates the minds who first charted the cosmos.

Earth's atmosphere might have contributed to the origin of life more than previously thought. In a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, CU Boulder researchers and ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Research out of the University of Minnesota found a positive association between fluoridated water supplies and cognition. This counters an August 2024 report from the National ...

Centuries of excavations have unearthed a few theories about what really brought down one of the oldest cities in the ancient ...

More than a billion years ago, in a shallow basin across what is now northern Ontario, a subtropical lake much like ...

The Ancient Babylonians established the first known practice of setting new year pledges, a tradition that has endured for over 4,000 years. Photograph by World History Archive, Alamy Stock Photo ...