Hagar, a village in Egypt's Gharbia province, was working on a plot of land in front of his house when he came across a block ...

Until now, the biggest fruiting bodies known among the ascomycetes, the largest group of fungi (it includes morels and ...

The building, named Jandial D, turned up during excavations by the Italian Archaeological Mission of Ca' Foscari University ...

Five kilometres (about three miles) of open sea, strong currents and waves that give no warning. That is the distance between ...

Here is how a consultation worked. Anyone with a question (whether to travel, close a purchase, go to court, or wait for a ...

Cut a mammoth tusk across and a pattern appears that nobody drew. Rings like those of a tree trunk mark how the ivory grew, ...

The Lighthouse of Alexandria has been gone for more than seven centuries. A series of earthquakes, including those of 1303 ...

Around 400 BC, Europe was changing, though not in a single direction. Athens had just lost the Peloponnesian War (404 BC), ...

About 70 million years ago, in what is now Alberta, Canada, a young Albertosaurus—a relative of T. rex—ended up as food for ...

Among the stone tools that early humans left beside a lake in northern Israel, archaeologists found something far bigger: the ...

Any pediatrician has seen it: a baby who spends so many hours lying on their back that one side of the head ends up flat. The ...

Dig a trench for a canal that will run 107 kilometres (66 miles) across northern France and you expect scraps: a stretch of ...