During excavations amid the early stages of expanding low carbon heating to thousands of homes along Old Kent Road in London, ...

These giant rocks could roll at any moment. The fact they haven't offers a window into the shaking of ancient Earth.

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, a collection of remarkable architectural achievements, have long captivated the ...

The Arab Muslim victory at the Battle of al-Qadisiyyah paved the way for the Islamic conquest of Mesopotamia and Persia.

Some of the first human beings to arrive in Tasmania, over 41,000 years ago, used fire to shape and manage the landscape, ...

If we asked who the wealthiest person in the world was in the first half of the 19th century, many would likely think of ...

The ancient Greek thinker Anaximander lent his prodigious talents to pre-Socratic Greek philosophy, geography, geometry, and cosmology.

Indeed, the “Land of Mu” was first introduced to the world as a concept by British-American travel writer Augustus Le Plongeon back in the late 1800s. He declared that several ancient civilizations, ...

Tiffany Shlain and Ken Goldberg pay homage to the ongoing human quest for knowledge by documenting its evolution through ...

From maps and pickaxes, it is now possible to discover ancient relics from a distance, as in the case of a recent find.

A map of the night sky created by the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus was recently discovered at St. Catherine Monastery ...

This week, uncover the secrets of Pompeii through ancient DNA, meet an adventurous emperor penguin, seek signs of mysterious ...