About 70 million years ago, in what is now Alberta, Canada, a young Albertosaurus—a relative of T. rex—ended up as food for ...

Archaeologists recovering the Bronze Age sword. Credit: Soprintendenza Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio per la provincia di Viterbo e per l’Etruria Meridionale A bronze sword from the 13th century ...

The so called cenotaph or temple of Trajan may be the place where his funeral pyre stood. Credit: Philipp Pilhofer / Wikimedia Commons A team from Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University spent two weeks ...

Among the stone tools that early humans left beside a lake in northern Israel, archaeologists found something far bigger: the ...

In a cave on the Italian side of the Slovenian border, one layer of earth holds the remains of the first farmers. The layer ...

The Lighthouse of Alexandria has been gone for more than seven centuries. A series of earthquakes, including those of 1303 ...

For more than three centuries, astronomers asking whether the Solar System is stable have received ever more comforting ...

The Great Sphinx has been without a nose for centuries. Now a fossil crocodile skull taken from the same rock turns out to be ...

When we think of Greek colonization, we think of Athens, Corinth or the cities of Euboea, which scattered new settlements ...

For decades, one of the oddest spots on the world's political map was a patch of farmland roughly the size of a soccer pitch.

More than 2,000 years ago, the hilltop where archaeologists are now digging in Sicily's Valley of the Temples was where the ...