Roughly 10,000 years ago, humans started shifting from being nomadic hunter-gatherers to building large agricultural ...

Paleontologists have discovered the fossilized remains of a crocodile "hypercarnivore" that lived in what is now Argentina ...

Several large sculptures were among the trove of artifacts that divers recovered from the waters near Alexandria, Egypt.

A Celtic settlement unearthed in the Czech Republic yielded over 22,000 bags of artifacts including gold coins, jewelry and ...

The new fossil was unearthed in a remote part of Argentinian Patagonia—and had teeth comparable to a T. rex, says National ...

Scientists have found what they believe may be the earliest evidence of violence in Southeast Asia. Studies of a ...

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the ...

What do the rumblings of Iceland's volcanoes have in common with the now peaceful volcanic islands off Scotland's western ...

A remarkably intact skeleton of a giant meat-eating crocodile relative has been unearthed in South America, providing ...

Other ancient traditions include the throwing of pennies at the site of the first proclamation, with stones also thrown into ...

Archaeologists in Norway have uncovered human remains and structural artifacts indicating a 3,000-year-old ritualistic cult ...