This ancient people lived in the Sahara when it was a much more welcoming environment.

Archaeologists and TV audiences alike were stunned this week when Dr. Vassil Dobrev — a veteran Egyptian archaeologist — revealed photographic and survey evidence of what appears to be a lost pyramid ...

Ancient magnetic fossils reveal that animal navigation using Earth’s magnetic field may have evolved far earlier than ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising mechanism that may explain how Earth cooled dramatically after the age of dinosaurs.

A 66 million-year-old mystery behind how our planet transformed from a tropical greenhouse to the ice-capped world of today has been unraveled by scientists. Their new study has revealed that Earth's ...

A treasure trove of Cambrian fossils has been discovered in southern China, providing a window on marine life shortly after ...

"You need so much water that we think these could be evidence of an ancient warmer and wetter climate where there was rain falling for millions of years." ...

Crystals hidden in Australia’s oldest rocks have revealed new clues about how Earth and the Moon formed. The study suggests Earth’s continents didn’t begin growing until hundreds of millions of years ...

Five quartz arrowheads found in a South African cave were laced with a slow-acting tumbleweed poison that would have tired prey during long hunts. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Even now, after many years of research, you won’t find much information in books about ancient fire. Indeed, I first started to become interested in this question of fire in the geological past more ...

Measurements of seismic waves over many years suggest the Earth's core is deformed and reshaped by conditions of extreme heat ...

Five quartz arrowheads unearthed in South Africa contained traces of toxins. Marlize Lombard Archaeologists working in South Africa have discovered traces of plant toxins on the tips of ...