One of the possible new species is a cheerful-looking purple octopus. It was actually first spotted in 2014 when scientists ...

Imagine walking through a World War I excavation site—not wading through mud-filled trenches, but navigating a digital ...

It has been speculated that the bone used to identify Denny, a hybrid female who had a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father, may have come from her leg or an arm. However, this discovery in ...

A joint excavation south of the Egyptian capital has unearthed the resting place of a father-son pair who once served ...

Underwater archaeologists have begun a new expedition off Poompuhar, India, searching for submerged structures, shipwrecks ...

Earthworks forming Fort Pemberton, a Confederate fort built during the Civil War on James Island along the Stono River, are ...

The greatest form of national development is not merely telling children what the world is like, but giving them the ...

Indian designer Siddharth Bathla, who is the founder of Design Factory India, has been bestowed with the title of ‘Designer ...

Photo: Courtesy of the Shaanxi Academy of Archaeology In downtown Bishkek, a white building at the National Academy of ...

Archaeologists in Shaoxing, in East China's Zhejiang Province, have uncovered hundreds of tinned iron armor plates dating back 1,700 years to the Three Kingdoms period. The discovery, made at the ...

And one of the last places these ancient humans made their way to was the southeastern Pacific island of Rapa Nui, known more broadly as Easter Island. Located 2,360 miles off the coast of Chile—which ...

What is the past? It may seem a simple question to answer, but it is more complex than we might think at first. As science, politics, technologies and ways of thinking change, so does our ...