An update on the old wooden longboat frozen along the Ambler River that was rescued last fall — and where it likely ended up.

Ancient humans were surprisingly creative, structured, and geometrical in their thinking some 60,000 years ago, according to ...

Each March, many of the country’s most selective colleges and universities release their admissions decisions, reviving debates over the roles of race, wealth and privilege — and putting Americans’ ...

The newly recovered 1000-year-old page from the Archimedes palimpsest. Credit: Blois, Musée des Beaux-Arts / IRHT-CNRS. For ...

Notations made in the margins of a 16th century edition of Ptolemy’s The Almagest were likely scrawled by an auspicious author: Galileo Galilei Handwriting analysis determined that the famed ...

In 1917, two girls fooled the world with scissors, hat pins and a borrowed camera. A century on, the same trick is playing ...

A mysterious form of plague that spread across Eurasia thousands of years before the Black Death has finally revealed a crucial clue. Scientists analyzing ancient DNA discovered the bacterium Yersinia ...

Most of the infectious diseases that trouble humans today actually began in animals. These are called zoonotic pathogens, meaning they jumped from animals to humans at some point in history. Long ...

Atlantis has been one of history’s most enduring mysteries. In this video, we explore ancient texts and historical references that some researchers believe may contain clues about the legendary lost ...

An 8,000-year-old skeleton discovered deep within a flooded cave system on Mexico's Caribbean coast is shedding new light on the prehistoric inhabitants of the Yucatán Peninsula. The remains, found by ...

GLASGOW, March 1 (Reuters) - Celtic's Reo Hatate needed three attempts to convert a 91st-minute penalty as the visitors salvaged a thrilling 2-2 draw with Rangers in Sunday's Old Firm derby at Ibrox, ...