Archaeologists have unearthed a sprawling ancient Roman cemetery in southern France containing 1,430 graves and evidence of funerary...
A 2,200-year-old ornate tomb in eastern China may belong to the ruler of the Chu state, one of the seven powerful kingdoms that vied...
The decipherment of an ancient scroll has revealed where the Greek philosopher Plato is buried, Italian researchers suggest.Graziano...
Ireland’s new prime minister is a relatively young man leading a comparatively young republic that is experiencing several unprecedented...
Two ancient skeletons, each missing a part of the lower leg, recovered from graves in China were of elite individuals whose legs were...
Hundreds of hammerhead sharks gather around an ancient volcano in the Pacific Ocean, drawn by secret signals radiating from the seabed,...
Human burials are some of the most poignant and famous archaeological remains that survive from the ancient world. People were buried...
A major extinction in the midst of a huge expansion of life on Earth may have been driven by plate tectonics.New research finds links...
Chinese scientists have discovered an ancient lost world in an extraordinarily deep and large sinkhole in south China, where they expect...
Tutankhamun, often called King Tut today, was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh who was buried in a lavish tomb filled with gold artifacts...
It may be hard to imagine, but once upon a time, dinosaurs didn’t dominate their world. When they first originated, they were just...
By studying river crystals in Finland, researchers have identified traces of a hidden chunk of Earth's crust from the heart of an ancient...
For millennia, solar eclipses have inspired awe, wonder and fear. After all, it's not often that twilight descends in the middle of...
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A remarkable reconstruction shows a 300 million-year-old millipede the length of a small car crawling around a forest floor looking...
In 648 BCE, the Greek poet Archilochus wrote that, "nothing can be surprising any more or impossible or miraculous, now that Zeus,...
No confectionery symbolises the holidays quite like gingerbread. While most of us associate gingerbread with edible houses and spiced...
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