From Attila’s former subjects to a fleeting Danube kingdom, the Rugii left surprisingly vivid traces—thanks to the Life of Saint Severin, a rare window into collapse, violence, and desperate survival ...

Tens of millions of years ago, a diverse array of bird species soared, swam, and thrived amid their scaly reptile cousins—and ...

The winter solstice is the astronomical start of winter in the Northern Hemisphere, when the North Pole is tilted farthest from the Sun, giving the shortest day and longest night of the year.

Our hunter-gatherer ancestors have given us many things. They passed down mastery of fire for cooking and early survival ...

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

Read on to see the world's oldest man-made structures that are still in use, from Roman amphitheatres to Chinese temples...

In Old Norse mythology, Baldr, the son of the god Odin and the goddess Frigg, was slain with a mistletoe spear. Some ...

Scientists investigating an ancient mystery have uncovered the first evidence that a Bronze Age strain of plague infected livestock, not just humans. During the Middle Ages, a devastating outbreak of ...

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an ...

A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale ...

Most communities have some practice of burning something to release or purify the spirit. This holiday season discover your ...