Archaeologists have discovered the 4,000-year-old ancient Egyptian tomb of "Idi," a local governor's daughter who lived during Egypt's...
Scientists have discovered the "fossilized fingerprint" of a chunk of seafloor that was hiding beneath the Pacific Ocean in Earth's...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered yet another troubling sign that there's something very wrong with our model of...
The ancient Maya constructed hundreds of pyramids throughout Mesoamerica, from about 1000 B.C. to A.D. 1500, placing a wide variety...
While excavating at an ancient castle in Turkey, archaeologists unearthed several martial artifacts: three bronze shields and a bronze...
Rarely do we get the opportunity to hum a classic David Bowie song while thumbing through the latest Science news, but this week we...
In 1986, the band "The Bangles" sang about "all the old paintings on the tombs" where the figures they depict are "walking like an...
Most ice age teens started puberty around the same time as humans in modern times do, according to archaeologists who studied the skeletons...
Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed the 3,200-year-old remains of a Military barracks containing a wealth of artifacts, including...
Astronomers recently spotted a surprising "smiley face" beaming up from the surface of Mars as they surveyed the alien landscape as...
Name: Babylonian Map of the World ("Imago Mundi" in Latin)What it is: A clay tablet inscribed with the oldest known map of the ancient...
Archaeologists have discovered a trove of ancient silver coins "hidden in a hole in the wall" on a Mediterranean island near Sicily,...
Archaeologists have identified the first ancient Egyptian astronomical observatory on record, which they say is the "first and largest"...
Within months of the discovery of King Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922, the man who financed its excavation — George Herbert, the...
According to the World Health Organization, about 280 million people worldwide have depression and about one billion have a mental...
What do you think of when you think about ancient Egyptian mummies? Perhaps your mind takes you back to a school trip to the museum,...
Hundreds of millions of years ago, Earth plunged into a deep-freeze that turned the planet into a giant ball of ice. Now, scientists...
For 1,800 years the story of the ‘lost British emperor’ who defied ancient Rome has been merely a footnote in history books. Carausius’s...