Excavations along the Rappahannock River in Virginia have revealed the likely spot of Indigenous villages once described by ...

Bleached clay rocks found on the Martian surface suggest that the Red Planet was once home to heavy rainfall and tropical ...

The "sacrificial complex" contained hundreds of bits of horse bridles and bronze beads, revealing a new aspect of ancient ...

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Archaeologists digging at a Mesoamerican site in Mexico have discovered an unusual, cube-shaped human skull. It is the first ...

Archaeologists in France have discovered three ancient storage jars brimming with tens of thousands of Roman coins. The ...

How would history have unfolded if Antony and Cleopatra had defeated Octavian? Would they have ruled the Roman Empire?

In December 1954, Gertrude Elion and colleagues described a new compound they had developed that sent children with leukemia ...

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The CDC's vaccine committee has voted to roll back a universal recommendation that newborns be vaccinated against hepatitis B ...

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