CUDDALORE: Along the banks of the Thenpennai River, traces of forgotten civilisations lie hidden beneath layers of sand and time. For a 35-year-old archaeologist from Ulunthampattu village near ...

One of the most fearsome predators to rule the seas millions of years ago may have left something behind at Virginia Beach’s ...

New research shows that the superior colliculus, a primitive brain region, can independently interpret visual information.

An ancient Mayan monument found at Mexico’s Aguada Fénix site in 2020 has now been revealed by archaeologists as a cosmogram.

We may be witnessing the moment when our ancestors first defied a hostile world, using the same tools in the same place for nearly 300,000 years despite the chaos of shifting climates. Picture early ...

Revolutionary scanning technology has identified two concealed air-filled anomalies behind the eastern facade of Egypt's Menkaure Pyramid, providing the first scientific evidence to support a ...

Ancient Greek sculptor Polykleitos set the standard of beauty and harmony in statues with his groundbreaking Canon of ...

Archaeologists have confirmed that Aguada Fénix, the largest and oldest known Maya monument, was designed as a massive cosmogram representing the Maya conception of the universe. New excavations at ...

Research teams from the Academia Sinica and National Taiwan University have documented the first discovery of five freshwater ...

Warm deep water driven by ancient meltwater feedbacks caused rapid ice-shelf collapse in East Antarctica 9,000 years ago. The ...

A treasure trove of rare freshwater fossils has been described from Taiwan in a new study. Dating back to the Early ...

As the saying went, all roads once led to Rome — and scientists now say those roads stretched 50% longer than previously ...