For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

Mainland Spain offers a unique breed of urban beaches, with low-key surf communities, coastal restaurants and sea-facing old ...

Western scholars believe that Chinese civilisation began with the Yinxu Ruins in Anyang, Henan province, a capital of the ...

All 28 of the most populous cities in the U.S. are sinking, worsening risks of flooding and damage to urban infrastructure, a new study finds. One of the main culprits is the extraction of ...

A new study of the 28 most populous U.S. cities finds that all are sinking ... Venice and New Orleans have already drawn major attention, and multiple recent studies have shown that many places ...

The land underneath the largest cities in the United States is sinking, a phenomenon threatening buildings, roads and rail lines, according to new research. But that sinking, known as subsidence ...

America’s biggest cities are slowly sinking—and not just the ones near the ocean, according to a study published today in the journal Nature Cities. The satellite-based study shows that all 28 ...

Tikal developed from a small “watering hole” into one of the biggest and most powerful Maya cities of Mesoamerica.

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Just over one year after researchers revealed that the U.S. East Coast is sinking at an alarming rate, the lead authors have announced that the ground is also sinking beneath dozens of cities across ...

Many major U.S. cities are sinking, a new study shows, including Phoenix. Known scientifically as land "subsidence," the most common cause of the sinking is "massive ongoing groundwater extraction ...

New York, Dallas, Seattle and 25 other major U.S. cities are sinking, threatening the structural integrity of buildings, roads, dams and other forms of infrastructure, new research found.