An arrowhead firmly lodged in the skull of an ancient fallen warrior, a voluptuous woman’s form carved from ivory and the mask of a Roman river god are among more than 1,000 major archaeological discoveries being brought together for the first time.
Read moreResearchers say they’ve identified a site off the coast of Rhode Island where they think the ship that 18th-century explorer Capt. James Cook used to sail around the world may be located.
Read moreThe Great Dying, a cataclysmic period 252 million years ago during which more than 90 percent of sea creatures and 70 percent of land vertebrates went extinct, may have taken place over only a few thousand years, according to a study published Wednesday in the Geological Society of America Bulletin.
Read moreTwenty-three years after war ended in the former Yugoslavia, thousands of war crimes and criminals still have not been investigated by prosecutors or brought before judges, and experts expect many suspects will never face trial.
Read moreThree legal scholars urged a federal judge Friday to unseal the Watergate “Road Map,” a secret report sent to Congress in 1974 containing evidence about President Richard Nixon’s misconduct.
Read moreIt looks a bit like a hashtag, but it’s 73,000 years old. And scientists say this tiny sketch found in a South African cave is the oldest known drawing.
Read moreA painting seized by the Nazis during World War II was returned to its rightful owner Wednesday at a repatriation ceremony in lower Manhattan.
Read moreLBW, a Mississippi LLC, claims in a federal complaint that Kate Bosworth dba Make Pictures Productions plans to release an unauthorized version of “Little Brother of War,” wholly funded by LBW, about the game of stickball among the Choctaw Indians.
Read moreDenmark’s famed Viking ship museum, damaged by the rising sea level in 2013, will be torn down.
Read moreA 1600s Native American fort uncovered as part of a rail bridge replacement project is shining some light on a tribe’s first dealings with Europeans, archeologists said on Tuesday during a tour of the site.
Read moreEight decades on, the move by Spain’s new center-left government’s to exhume General Francisco Franco from a controversial shrine has raised attention to an unresolved issue linked to Franco’s regime — the hundreds of anonymous mass graves that testify to the dictatorship’s brutality.
Read moreAuthorities have reported a robbery on a tiny Greek island once used as a leper colony.
Read moreSpain’s center-left government approved Friday legal amendments ensuring that the remains of former dictator Gen. Francisco Franco will be dug up and removed from a controversial national mausoleum honoring its civil war dead.
Read moreAt the height of the Abbasid empire in the mid-ninth century, the palace city of Samarra was lavishly decorated with glass. Colorful tesserae, purple millefiori, and small perfectly translucent shapes adorned the walls, meant to inspire a sense of wonder and awe and perhaps even remind visitors of Solomon’s crystal palace.
Read moreNorth Carolina’s Historical Commission on Wednesday decided three controversial Confederate monuments will remain standing at the old State Capitol two days after protestors toppled another on the University of North Carolina’s Chapel Hill campus.
Read moreNew research into ancient tree rings from half a world away could settle lingering questions about when the Greek volcano Thera erupted and resolve long-standing questions about Mediterranean archaeology, scientists say in a study released Wednesday.
Read moreAlex and Pam McCollister stood on the edge of the lake in Glacier National Park Monday afternoon not knowing. At the other end of Lake McDonald their family cabin inside the park, which has been in Alex McCollister’s family since 1913, may have been lost in a wildfire that raged through the west side of Glacier on Sunday.
Read moreThe stoic stone faces of Easter Island may tell the story of a once complex society where guild workers fished, farmed, shared resources and carved the giant statues with volcanic stone, according to a new study published Monday.
Read moreConfident he has definitively unmasked the true identity of skyjacker turned folk hero, a private sleuth wants to explain how his team members decrypted hidden messages they believe D.B. Cooper embedded in letters sent to several newspapers in the 1970s.
Read moreRomanian and German archeologists have discovered a prehistoric fortress dating back as far as 3,400 years in western Romania.
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