Yet, everything changed when archaeologists uncovered a remarkably preserved construction site in Pompeii. Buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE, the site had retained raw material piles, ...

A major mystery has surrounded the Hjortspring boat ever since its discovery: where did these invading warriors from the 4th ...

After more than a century of speculation, researchers have traced the likely origins of the legendary Hjortspring boat through chemical analysis of its construction materials and the discovery of an ...

Nearly 18,000 dinosaur footprints have been uncovered at the Carreras Pampa tracksite in Bolivia, making it the largest ...

For decades, scientists have wondered whether life ever existed beyond Earth. Now, a discovery on Mars might finally bring us ...

In doing so, Paralvinella hessleri, a tiny deep-sea worm first discovered in 1989, transforms one of the deadliest substances ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

Traditional sources and scholars have long hypothesized the location of this sacred chest. But tracing its whereabouts is ...