More than a millennium ago, a Maya community collapsed in the face of a devastating drought. One writer joined an intrepid ...

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After years of excavation and study, archaeologists have restored the Küsterberg burial site to its original layout to ...

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The Haenyeo, a group of skilled divers on Jeju Island, plunge beneath the ocean’s surface without any breathing equipment, ...

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The tiny Carnarvon flapjack octopus is the latest of ten species described by Australian scientists after a 2022 research ...

Angler Christopher Thuss stumbled upon the scuttled tugboat "J.C. Ames," which was located just nine feet below the surface off the coast of Manitowoc, Wisconsin ...

British officers and crew members set out in search of the Northwest Passage on HMS "Erebus" and HMS "Terror." None returned ...