Archaeologists working in western Asia Minor say they have mapped a dense constellation of 483 ancient settlements that once ...

Traditional sources and scholars have long hypothesized the location of this sacred chest. But tracing its whereabouts is ...

Archaeologists recently found the lost ruins of a ceremonial temple—covered in sand and 4,000 to 5,000 years old—in ...

COLONIE — Some mysteries need no trench coat — just a curious mind, a local historian and one missing box. When the Grounds family farm in Colonie was sold at an estate sale this fall, one item ...

Charles I and his wife Zita, photographed around 1916, fled to Switzerland at the end of World War I. Hulton Archive / Getty Images For decades, the 137-carat yellow diamond that belonged to Europe’s ...

Sometimes the greatest discoveries are actually rediscoveries. In Canada, for example, researchers revealed North America’s most northeasterly woolly mammoth find after taking a second look at a ...

It is a scene that feels straight out of fiction, the jumping-off point for a fable. In the bowels of a building at a London university, a curious professor opens a turquoise door that reads “Map Room ...

Ed. note: The following is an excerpt from Northern Humboldt Indians, the latest in local historian Jerry Rohde’s book series on the people and places of Humboldt County. It was published earlier this ...

Unpacking the Local Impact of China’s Mega-Projects on Kyrgyzstan’s Regions A statue of the Buddhist goddess Preah Thorani at Wat Prasat Ta Moan is riddled with bullet holes and shrapnel damage ...

Here is what you’ll learn when you read this story: A new study finds compelling evidence of a previously unknown land bridge that once connected western Anatolia and southeastern Europe.

Although three editions of FIFA’s flagship event have gone by without Paraguay’s national anthem being played in the stadiums, its notes will be sung again in 2026. Fans in Asuncion and beyond will ...