Italy on Tuesday put on display one of the best known examples of Etruscan painting, panels from a tomb that it acquired for 15 million euros ($17 million) in …

A 2019 astronaut photo shows off ancient lava flows that once oozed down the jet-black slopes of the Toussidé volcano in northwestern Chad. An intriguing volca…

Bronze Age rock carvings suggest communities across Europe were far more connected than previously thought, according to a new study led by the Department of A…

Sleep is essential, yet humans have evolved to need so little of it. When evolutionary anthropologist David Samson delved into our ancient past to find the rea…

Lake Tana in Ethiopia’s Amhara region was once a tourist hotspot, known for its picturesque shorelines and monasteries dating back to the 14th century. But sin…

Ancient algae developed UV-protective compounds like scytonemin, which early plants inherited to survive on land over 500 million years ago. This adaptation wa…

Ancient space rocks are classified as asteroids (rocky), comets (icy), meteors (burning up in atmosphere), or meteorites (landed on Earth). These objects revea…

The Hubble Space Telescope discovered the "Chandelier Cluster," an ancient globular cluster in the Milky Way, has formed stars in two separate bursts—12 billio…

The quiz tests knowledge of ancient empires by matching lands to rulers like Rome or Persia. It highlights how historical conquests shaped modern borders and g…

Scientists digitally unrolled and fully read a 2,000-year-old Roman scroll (PHerc 1667) from Herculaneum using AI and X-ray scans, revealing its text for the f…

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of the globular cluster NGC 6723, 28,000 light-years away, revealing thousands of ancient stars packed tightly by …