A mysterious black diamond stumped experts for years until one Belgian cutter invented a new machine to shape the 612-carat ...

Far below the surface of the Baltic Sea, archaeologists have mapped a 3,000 foot line of stones that looks less like a ...

Heat-reddened clay, fire-cracked stone, and fragments of pyrite mark where Neanderthals gathered around a campfire 400,000 ...

Today, Easter Island is a treeless landscape with hundreds of gigantic stone statues that have sparked imagination and research. How were statues weighing up to 88 tons carved, transported, and ...

India is a land of many temples, whereas there are some so ancient that can transport you to another century. Visiting these temples offer travel experiences that have been built long before by ...

Qin-era carved stone proven authentic through advanced analysis, revealing ancient Kunlun mission and inspiring new preservation efforts.

Researchers have discovered the earliest known instance of human-created fire, which took place in the east of England 400,000 years ago. The new discovery, in the village of Barnham, pushes the ...

The presence of pyrite was an unmistakable sign. Striking flint against pyrite nodules creates sparks, and which can be used to start fire. This pushes back the earliest known controlled use of fire ...

The unusually quiet Winter Meetings are in the books, so who were baseball's biggest winners and losers this week?

On this week’s “More To The Story,” art historian Erin Thompson examines the ways societies build and destroy monuments—and ...

Location: San Juan, Wayne, Garfield, and Grand counties, Utah, United States Size: 337,598 acres (24th largest National Park) Established: September 12, ...

For the surfers who flocked to Indonesia in the 1970s with nothing more than bravado and a backpack, Bali is unrecognisable.