A vast ocean chock-full of microbes may have once covered more than a third of Mars's surface, according to a new analysis of ...

Among the early Maya, the site of Aguada Fénix would have been a place for everyone to gather for trade, socialization, and ...

As the saying went, all roads once led to Rome — and a new digital atlas shows that those roads stretched 50% longer than ...

Urfa, formerly the Mesopotamian city of Edessa, is said to have been the birthplace of Abraham. Though archaeologists now ...

Merit's head covering was made from real human hair and was buried with her in its own wooden cabinet.

New research suggests that the holes were the site of an ancient marketplace, and Inca rulers may have used them as a ...

Flinders University fossil experts have unearthed more clues about why kangaroos and wallabies have endured to become one of the continent's most prolific marsupial groups. They have analyzed the ...

In the south-east of the continent at Budj Bim (Mount Eccles), modern science can tell us a volcanic eruption happened ...

The Roman Empire had an impressive road network. A new dataset now visualizes the road map, adding over 100,000 kilometers of previously unknown routes.

Learn more about the surprisingly well-preserved fossilized dinosaur egg uncovered in South America and what it could tell us about dinosaur nesting and bird evolution.