Archaeologists working at the ancient site of Pompeii unveiled their latest find Thursday: a formal dining room that offers a…
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When roving bands of hunter-gatherers tamed scavenging wolves at the end of the Pleistocene era, they set the stage for…
The most important pigment in ancient times was processed not from a knotty root or the frothy juice of a…
The wildfire is getting worse. Parts of the United States, say the scientists, is experiencing wildfires three times more often…
One summer night as the sun set behind the Dnipro River, the great waterway that divides Ukraine, Anatolii Volkov walked…
Paleontologists on Wednesday exposed the fossilized bones of one of the strangest whales in history. The 39-million-year-old leviathan, called Perucetus,…
In 1966, scientists at Camp Century, now an abandoned US military base in the Arctic, drilled deep into the Greenland…
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Enlarge / Archaeologists have used cosmic rays to uncover a secret underground burial chamber from the Hellenistic period in Naples,…
Amazonian dark earth (ADE) soil profile. Note that there are black and yellow layers. ADE corresponds only to the black…