For Antarctic veterans and novices alike, the first sighting of an iceberg on an expedition stays “closest to your heart.” ...

For the perfect vacation with Mediterranean views, sandy beaches, and layers of history, head to this coastal gem with a ...

A large archaeological excavation at Huerto Raso has uncovered important clues about the daily life of early farming communities that lived more than 7,000 years ago. The shelter, located in northern ...

A 5,000-year-old axe head and the remains of Roman buildings are among the finds that have been unearthed near Lincoln.

Long before the Mycenaeans, Thessaly was shaped by early farmers, vast Neolithic towns, and enduring links across the Aegean ...

Jane Goodall needed to lose her fear of them; they had to lose theirs of her. Bananas were the great lure that encouraged contact and understanding.

A genderless human figurine, carved 8,000 years ago, raises questions about how agriculture arrived in the South Caucasus.

In the first few thousand years after the end of the last Ice Age, humanity experienced some curious and surprisingly rapid population crashes. While population crashes in ancient times have often ...

Excavations at the village of Fleury-sur-Orne in France’s Normandy region revealed a necropolis of 32 burial mounds dating to the Middle Neolithic period (ca. 4700 –4300 b.c.). The traces of ditches ...

On the windswept hills overlooking Turkey’s vast southeastern plains, new archaeological discoveries are revealing how life might have looked 11,000 years ago when the world’s earliest communities ...

KARAHANTEPE, Turkey — On the windswept hills overlooking Turkey's vast south-eastern plains, new archaeological discoveries are revealing how life might have looked 11,000 years ago when the world's ...