Cats were domesticated in North Africa, but spread to Europe only about 2,000 years ago. Earlier reports of “house” cats were ...

The roughly 11,000 inscriptions preserved by Mount Vesuvius' eruption in 79 C.E. offer a glimpse into everyday life in the ...

The newly excavated 4,500-year-old valley temple from ancient Egypt holds a "public calendar" and a roof for astronomical ...

New research suggests the Romans used a method known as "hot mixing" to produce self-healing concrete, which allowed them to ...

An archaeological team has uncovered for the first time more than half of the temple, long buried under River Nile sediment.

Divers have discovered a long-submerged wall some 7,000 years old under the sea off western France, scientists said Thursday.

Bones of now extinct species became a haven for bee babies thousands of years ago, scientists report in a first-of-its-kind ...

Researchers have dated vertebrae from a massive prehistoric shark thought to have ruled the waves off northern Australia back ...

Death Valley National Park has experienced so much record-breaking rainfall this season that an ancient lake has reappeared.

The ancient liturgy of the Rorate Caeli Advent Mass honors the Blessed Virgin Mary through a Mass celebrated at dawn, in ...

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