Spices, ancient treasures of human civilization, have shaped history from currency to royalty and medicine. Traces of their ...

The Minoan Road, over 3,500 years old, is the oldest known paved road in Europe. It connected prominent Minoan cities.

A prehistoric site in Jiangsu, China, sheds new light on early life around Taihu Lake and helps trace the roots of the ...

Discover the world's most ancient trees, some surviving millennia as single individuals and others through regenerative root ...

Unraveling the mysteries of lost civilizations is a fascinating endeavor that combines the thrill of discovery with the ...

Murujuga, also known by the modern name Burrup Peninsula, in northwestern Australia, is home to potentially the world’s ...

Native people have been occupying Arizona for thousands of years, but it wasn't until 1877 that Arizona's first city was incorporated.

Found near the Sea of Galilee, a figurine depicting a crouching woman and a goose is now hailed as the earliest known ...

Ancient Persians believed the sky was blue because it reflected a massive sapphire beneath the Earth, giving the stone cosmic symbolism. Kings, priests, and rulers wore sapphires to signal wisdom, ...

Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly, and Heather Antos sit down with io9 to talk about bringing Captain Kirk back from the grave, ...

Only from the air did it reveal what it really was.

Tucked away inside a corner of the University of Kansas’s Lippincott Hall is a little-known museum called the Wilcox ...