Earth's Ediacaran Period, roughly 630 to 540 million years ago, has always been something of a magnetic minefield for ...

From Egypt to India to Medieval Europe, cumin has played a critical role in global cuisine and tradition for centuries -- ...

Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed one of the largest military fortresses ever discovered from the New Kingdom period at Tel Kharruba in North Sinai, revealing sophisticated defensive architecture ...

New research reveals fungi, not plants, were Earth's first land colonizers, emerging hundreds of millions of years earlier.

The Promontory School of Expeditionary Learning recently took students on an overnight field trip to Sevier County, where they saw petroglyphs and artifacts of the Fremont people.

The most comprehensive geoarchaeological survey of Egypt’s Karnak Temple complex has been carried out by an international ...

A newly deciphered Herculaneum scroll, revealed through Pulsed Thermography, exposes fresh details about the Greek origins of ...

An international study changes the view that exposure to the toxic metal lead is largely a post-industrial phenomenon. The ...

Rangers from the Esperance Tjaltjraak Native Title Aboriginal Corporation first noticed signs of erosion at Wharton Beach in ...

In a 1970 National Geographic feature, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey—son of Louis and Mary Leakey—recounted his ...