The monumental structures were of cult character and at the same time were probably places of assembly for the inhabitants of ...
Archaeologists are piecing together the world’s oldest known rune stone. It could shed light on the origins of early written ...
Archaeologists in Norway have discovered the world's oldest dated rune stone, part of a larger 2,000-year-old slab. The stone ...
The World’s Oldest Drinking Straws Unearthed From a 5,000-Year-Old Burial Mound: ‘Not as Simple as They Seem...' Over a ...
In 2019, a family in the Spanish town of Carmona was renovating their home when they stumbled upon a 2,000-year-old tomb from ...
Malta is home to some of the oldest and arguably most mysterious megalithic structures known to man, older than the Pyramids and Stonehenge.
In the heart of what was once Britain's largest colony in the New World, a "secret" church reveals how Black people lived and ...
Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?
Dan Rapp / USFWS via Friends of Midway Atoll Once a mother, always a mother: Wisdom, the oldest known wild bird, is settling into parenthood again at age 74. The world-famous Laysan albatross ...
Is the family dead? No. Dying? Maybe. It is humanity’s oldest, most universal, most venerated institution. Haven or cage, ...
In Jewish tradition, kavod hamet, honoring the dead, is one of the greatest mitzvot. It is a mitzvah that cannot be repaid, a ...
It is a funny world. They seemed to engage in what they ... but to draw attention to the fact that as living beings, we are subject to human foibles and frailties. They were not perfect.