An amateur archaeologist made an astonishing discovery at the Burghead fort dig in Scotland, unearthing a Pictish ring believed to be more than 1,000 years old. This remarkable find was made on the ...

On Sept. 27, 1822, French philologist Jean-François Champollion announced that he had deciphered ancient Egyptian ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have made a groundbreaking discovery, uncovering an ancient temple hidden within a cliff face. This ...

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The Cairo Fossil Forest is the second oldest in the world. These forests mark a turning point in Earth's history because they changed the composition of the atmosphere, scientists say.

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A poster-size version of the front page of the very first issue of this magazine hangs in the lobby of Springer Nature’s New ...

WASHINGTON, Sept 10 (Reuters) - A sample obtained by NASA's Perseverance rover of reddish rock formed billions of years ago from sediment on the bottom of a lake contains potential signs of ancient ...

As “The Martian”, Sir Ridley Scott’s film of Andy Weir’s novel, reaches its climax the world watches attempts to save Mark Watney, a NASA astronaut stranded on Mars, with bated breath. All of ...

The agency’s scientists are still not saying they found fossils of Martian microbes, but analysis of the specimen collected by the Perseverance rover raises that possibility. By Kenneth Chang Life, ...