At the southern edge of the Iranian high plateau near the Pakistani border, the hilltop citadel of Arg-e Bam marks the Silk Road. According to legend, this earthen architecture city owes its ...

The most intriguing thing in the market was the variety of wild vegetables — even a seasoned botanist might struggle to name ...

Ancient DNA reveals a new group of people who lived near land bridge between the Americas - Scientists have identified a new ...

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

The Lion of Kea, an Archaic-era sculpture seemingly growing out of the bedrock poses one of the most puzzling mysteries from ancient Greece.

A giant boulder in Tonga rode a wave from an ancient tsunami 7,000 years ago. The 1,300-ton rock traveled a distance twice ...

Ancient human figurines have been found. Some of the oldest known paintings in the world are in the Cave of the Castle, in Cantabria in the north of Spain. Thought to be more than 40,000 years old ...

This is thought to be one of the earliest known photographs capturing a group of tourists on Athens's Acropolis, taken around ...

When a chimp pounds rhythmically on a towering tree root deep in the jungle, it may be doing more than just making noise.

A research team in China got creative in its efforts to save a critically endangered species by turning to ancient poems ... published the findings in the journal Current Biology on May 5.

Previously the earliest known reptile footprints, found in Canada, were dated to 318 million years ago. The ancient footprints from Australia were found on a slab of sandstone recovered near Melbourne ...

The ancient footprints from Australia were found on a slab of sandstone recovered near Melbourne and show reptile-like feet with long toes and hooked claws. Scientists estimate the animal was ...