A man who died in Pompeii during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 was carrying a medical kit with him, new scans ...

Health officials suspect that an Ebola epidemic has killed 100 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with the World ...

Archaeologists have excavated the remains of a dingo that was buried by ancestors of the Australian Aboriginal Barkindji ...

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One common archaeological discovery is the Daunian kyathos, a one-handled, painted piece of pottery that may have functioned ...

A newfound species of long-necked dinosaur from Thailand lived up to 120 million years ago, and it's the largest known of its ...

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A striking new image of the Whirlpool Galaxy is helping astronomers solve one of the biggest mysteries in star formation.

A 17th-century cemetery from Colonial Maryland held the remains of an 8-year-old boy with majority African ancestry, as well ...

Samples of "trinitite" created during the world’s first nuclear bomb test in 1945 contain unique crystals never seen before.

In 2015, after decades of relative stability, Antarctica's sea ice suddenly began to disappear. Sea ice extent reached a record low in 2023, and scientists have now figured out what happened in that ...

Our team — which includes archaeologists from Macquarie University, France's HiSoMA research unit, and the Polish Academy of ...