Gypsum dune fields at White Sands National Monument within the Chihuahuan Desert and the Tularosa Basin near Alamogordo, New ...

A 4th century ship full of treasures was discovered off the coast of Cyprus. Born in Leeds, Joe finished his Spanish degree in 2018 before becoming an English teacher to football (soccer) players ...

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Homo sapiens, the species to which all modern humans belong, evolved in Africa roughly 300,000 years ago. Early Homo sapiens shared the planet with other human species like Neanderthals and Homo ...

Brazilian researchers are using laser technology to unearth a lost Portuguese colony and challenge long-held beliefs about human settlement in the Amazon.

New research has discovered an extinct relative of modern humans known as Homo naledi buried their dead and engraved cave walls around 250,000 years ago. The discovery is a surprise as it changes ...

Continental clues: Modern continental rocks carry chemical signatures from the very start of our planet’s history, ...

March 14 (UPI) --On Friday, the FBI marked the 75th anniversary of its "10 Most Wanted Fugitives List," which has led to the discovery and capture of some of the more notorious people wanted for ...

Like giant frozen time capsules, Europe's glaciers have locked away countless secrets from the past. Perfectly preserved in the ice, artefacts which would normally rot within centuries can survive ...

Of all the ways that today’s plutocrats spend their billions, founding an art museum is one of the more benign, somewhere behind eradicating malaria but ahead of eradicating democracy.

A new archaeological discovery at Kach Kouch in Morocco challenges the long-held belief that the Maghreb (north-west Africa) was an empty land before the arrival of the Phoenicians from the Middle ...