The search for life on alien worlds has produced by far its most exciting discovery, in the form of a planet just 124 light years from earth that shows all the signs of hosting life.

On the summit of Mount Zion in Jerusalem stands one of the most sacred sites in the Holy City—a place revered by three of the ...

Newly published research suggests that prehistoric Homo sapiens developed innovative ways to protect themselves from increased ultraviolet (UV) radiation during periods of extreme instability in Earth ...

Many different causes likely contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire, in the various stages of that phenomenon.

The Antikythera Mechanism has long been hailed as a marvel of ancient technology, frequently referred to as the world’s first analog computer.

A team of prehistoric archaeologists from Tel Aviv University has proposed a new hypothesis to explain a long-standing mystery: Why did ancient humans bring very young children deep into underground c ...

French archaeological mission, composed of experts from Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, France’s National Center for ...

A team of Polish archaeologists has been credited with one of the most extraordinary finds in recent memory in Peru.

Near a quiet bend of the Danube River in Lower Austria, obscured by floodplains, there is a relic of a long-forgotten frontier.

If the archaeological record has been correctly interpreted, stone alignments in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge are remnants of shelters built 1.7 million years ago by Homo habilis, an extinct species repre ...

A major archaeological discovery near Alexandria, Egypt, is reshaping historians' understanding of the ancient civilization's northern frontier, specifically during the New Kingdom period.

A groundbreaking, high-resolution 3D reconstruction of the Titanic wreck has unveiled new clues about the ship’s ill-fated descent into the icy waters of the North Atlantic.