The four astronauts concluded a historic journey around the lunar far side that included their greatest distance from the ...

The Shroud of Turin is one of history's most analyzed and discussed artifacts. The Shroud of Turin "is a centuries old linen ...

A one-of-a-kind artifact recently found near the Sea of Galilee may shed new light on how early Christians practiced baptism ...

A new study from Harvard geoscientists reports the oldest direct evidence yet of plate motion, dating to 3.5 billion years ago. In a study published March 19 in Science, the researchers found that ...

There are few rivers in this world that carry such significance in terms of their history, mythology, and survival, and one ...

DIJON, France (WKRC) — A group of children in France made a remarkable discovery this month after a skeleton believed to date back thousands of years was unearthed near their school's playground. The ...

Israel’s strange Wheel of Ghosts turns out not to be so unusual after all, as new research has uncovered many similar sites in the region.

The period accompanying the birth of agriculture and animal husbandry, which occurred—in different regions of our planet—between the 5th and 2nd millennia BCE, is one of the most significant and, at ...

Traveling throughout the Middle East and North Africa is often described as a journey through the origins of civilizations. Long before modern borders were drawn and political tensions defined the ...

Re-examination of an Egyptian artifact discovered about 100 years ago led researchers to realize it is an ancient “bow drill.” The copper and leather device represents the first evidence of mechanical ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 24 (Reuters) - A small object called the Adorant figurine discovered in a cave in Germany in 1979 - crafted roughly 40,000 years ago by some of the earliest people to establish a ...