Greece's island of Samos was the birthplace of Pythagoras and its fascinating history goes back to the myth of the Argonauts ...

The Mediterranean Sea dropped during the Messinian Salinity Crisis—a major geological event that transformed the ...

Recent studies reveal that the Messinian Salinity Crisis led to the Mediterranean Sea becoming a vast salt basin through a ...

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Then an ancient 14.5 kilometer-long wall was discovered at the site ... was built around 2,400 BC during the early Bronze Age, the researchers said. Map of the al-Natah site, with plan of the ...

Researchers believe they have found a tunic that once belonged to Alexander the Great among artifacts in the royal tombs in Vergina, Greece, which has led to debate in the archeological field.

The fossil is an extinct ancient sea monster, a cephalopod (Class: Cephalopoda) and apex predator of the Ordovician Period in the Paleozoic Era, from approximately 485 to 444 million years ago ...

Increased land management by Aboriginal people in southeastern Australia around 6,000 years ago cut forest shrub cover in half, according to our new study of fossil pollen trapped in ancient mud.

Google Maps is getting new navigation features that should make inner-city driving a little easier. When enhanced navigation rolls out in November, the blue line on Google Maps will provide a ...

This fierce arthropod was among the world’s earliest apex predators. It was a claw-faced sea predator from the Cambrian period. These marine reptiles, which had boat-shaped bodies with four ...

The resting place of Noah’s Ark—a ship said in the Bible to have saved two of every animal during an ancient Great Flood sent by God to flush evil out of the world—may have been located ...

The new fossil, found in Argentina, surpasses the previous ancient record holder by about 20 million years. Imprinted in a slab of sandstone are parts of the tadpole’s skull and backbone, along with ...