Genomes sequenced from 7,000-year-old mummies in the Sahara have revealed a previously unknown population that inhabited the ...

A study of ancient flood records shows that recent extreme floods in Europe are not historically unique. Recent “unprecedented” floods are not exceptional when viewed in the context of the distant ...

As construction crews churned up dirt to renovate a Vienna soccer field last October, they happened upon an unprecedented ...

Just about everyone in Turkey's ancient city was a wine drinker - whether or not they belonged to the upper classes or the ...

A remarkably complete plesiosaur fossil found in southern Germany is shedding light on the early evolution of these iconic ...

An international team led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, has ...

The genomes of two women who lived 7,000 years ago in the Sahara when it was a green savannah reveal a remarkably isolated ...

Greek archaeologist George S. Korres, known for his excavations in the area of ancient Pylos in Messenia, died on Monday, ...

Plesiosaurs were long-necked reptiles that lived in the ocean during the time of the dinosaurs. While the area where this ...

The Severn analysis shows that floods in the last 72 years of monitoring are not exceptional in the context of paleo-flood records of the last 4,000 years. The largest flood in the Upper Severn ...

In 1930, German archaeologists uncovered the lower half of a massive statue, estimating that it likely originally stood some ...

The blades were found in just 11 inches of dirt and are believed to have served a cult-like purpose, experts said.