Cristina Roccati graduated from the University of Bologna when few other Italian women earned degrees, and she taught physics ...

Anatolia, the western part of modern-day Turkey that sits at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, is a fossil-rich ...

Based on organic residues – imperceptible to the naked eye and detectable only at a molecular level – bronze age wine ...

Archeologists recently uncovered an historic 1,600-year-old Jewish bath known as a mikveh in Ostia Antica, the archaeological site of an ancient Roman city.

The Melsonby hoard is a remarkable collection of more than 800 Iron-Age metal artifacts, which was found in a field near ...

Restoration work on the Rusovce Mansion in the capital of Slovakia has unearthed remnants of the first known Roman aqueduct ...

Mysterious micro-burrows in desert marble and limestone were probably made by microbes that lived millions of years ago. Exactly what kind of microbes bored into the rock remains unknown, as does ...

Hackman and his wife were partially mummified when they were discovered roughly a week after their deaths, with the “Unforgiven” star’s body found in a mudroom while Arakawa’s was located ...

A rare new species of two-clawed dinosaur has been discovered by scientists in Mongolia's Gobi Desert. The species, named Duonychus tsogtbaatari, was unique within a group of dinosaurs called ...

This is indicated by molecules that have now been discovered. NASA's Curiosity rover has detected the longest organic compounds on Mars to date, providing further evidence that prebiotic chemistry ...

The most significant of Farissol’s writings is Igereth Orchoth Olam, a comprehensive cosmographic and geographic work based on original research and the studies of Christian and Arab geographers.

Mysterious micro-burrows in desert marble and limestone were probably made by microbes that lived millions of years ago. Exactly what kind of microbes bored into the rock remains unknown, as does ...