More than a millennium ago, a Maya community collapsed in the face of a devastating drought. One writer joined an intrepid ...

Sharks, skates and catfish also have tooth-like structures called denticles that make their skin feel like sandpaper. When Haridy studied the tissues of her catfish, she saw that the denticles were ...

Across the Levant in the 15th century B.C., cities were rising up against freshly-installed pharaoh Thutmose III. It would be ...

An Egyptologist uncovered pro-Ramesses II hieroglyphs on Paris' obelisk, revealing ancient messages supportive of the alleged ...

Palynologists who study tiny pollen fossils share 4 stories found in grains that fell hundreds to millions of years ago.

In an archaeological first, German researchers have found a depiction of major Assyrian deities carved onto a relief.

NEW YORK (AP) — A set of ancient wooden spears may be younger ... Previous estimates dated the spears to 300,000 years ago so scientists thought the weapons belonged to a group of early humans ...