Ancient sites across Greece are emerging as biodiversity sanctuaries, offering refuge to wildlife amid habitat loss and urban ...

With backcountry camping, river swims and endless solitude, the multi-day Escalante hiking route offers deep insight into the ...

The true date of the eruption has long eluded—and vexed—historians of the deadly disaster. Here’s what the archaeological ...

Researchers have long speculated about the purpose and meaning of pointy “head cones” depicted in Egyptian art. Now they’ve ...

The oldest known cremation pyre in Africa is shedding light on the complex funeral rites of ancient hunter-gatherers 9,500 ...

Off the coast of Marseille, National Geographic Explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau hauled up thousands of ancient clay ...

Scholars will take a fresh look at the authenticity of a rock purporting to reveal the fate of the Lost Colony of Roanoke ...

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Centuries of excavations have unearthed a few theories about what really brought down one of the oldest cities in the ancient world. Alamy Chronicle's illustration of "Joshua at Jericho." Jericho's ...

Traditional sources and scholars have long hypothesized the location of this sacred chest. But tracing its whereabouts is more difficult than it seems. A SACRED CHESTThis model of the Ark of the ...

As a kid, I loved rummaging around my uncle’s makeshift museum. Wilfred Sylvester was an enthusiastic amateur historian and collector of remarkable artifacts, and he had transformed two rooms of my ...

Calakmul remained relatively undisturbed until gum harvesters in Mexico led an American botanist to them in 1931. Here’s what was found in its remnants. Structure II, a pyramid at Calakmul, was ...