Thousands of tourists, pagans, druids and people yearning for the promise of spring have marked the dawn of the shortest day ...

A new magnetic survey of the ancient Assyrian capital of Khorsabad has revealed several structures, including a villa, buried ...

Researchers have investigated a medicinal clay that was "highly prized" as a therapeutic for various ailments in antiquity.

If all the world's a stage and all the species merely players, then their exits and entrances can be found in the rock record ...

A feminist collective, the Amazons of Avignon, has been plastering the walls of the city with testimony from the trial of the ...

A new study published on December 18 in Nature offers a way to explain that 150-million-year gap. Computer modeling and ...

The discovery of a newly identified species — the oldest saber-toothed animal found and an ancient cousin to mammals — fills ...

Stonehenge may have been built to unify people in ancient Britain, according to new research. It comes after evidence shows ...

Recent findings show that Stonehenge’s stones came from all over Britain – and this offers clues to the monument’s purpose, ...

The specimens belong to an extinct variety of sheep with corkscrew-shaped horns, which naturally grew sideways out of the ...

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Tokyo-based startup ispace is preparing for its own mission to the Moon. The Resilience lander is set to carry a small rover, ...