Artifacts from an ancient Greek sanctuary and a Bronze Age dwelling in Italy’s Pertosa-Auletta Caves reveal insights into ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered a 1,500-year-old synagogue in Israel's Golan Heights, revealing new evidence of ancient ...

Archaeologists recently discovered a 2,150-square-foot Byzantine bishop's bathhouse in ancient Olympus, Turkey, dating back ...

For decades, geologists labeled a billion-year stretch of Earth’s history—from 1.8 to 0.8 billion years ago—as the “Boring ...

New research from Japan's iron-rich hot springs shows how early microbes may have harnessed iron and oxygen during the Great Oxygenation Event.

Ancient Greek afterlife beliefs reveal a shift from fear of death to hope through secret rituals, divine guidance, and ...

To explore the site, the researchers drafted a multidisciplinary team of scientists from the fields of botany, architecture, ...

It's been more than a decade since the last big ancient Egypt show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Now comes “Divine Egypt ...

Mars’ north polar vortex locks its atmosphere in extreme cold and darkness, freezing out water vapor and triggering a ...

Before sunlight ever reached the planet, another force may have sparked life—electricity. Deep beneath the ocean floor, ...

A NASA study shows bacteria fragments can survive 50 million years in Martian ice. Pure ice, not rock, could hold clues to ...