The Hidden Side of Monumental Splendor When we think of ancient monuments, what pops into mind? Towering pyramids, grand ...

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A bizarre 212 million year old crocodile relative walked on two legs like a dinosaur, with a toothless beak and tiny arms.

The Histories by Herodotus (484BC to 425BC) offers a remarkable window into the world as it was known to the ancient Greeks in the mid fifth century BC. Almost as interesting as what they knew, ...

The first four-legged vertebrates did not grow up like tadpoles after all. That idea has shaped the story of life on land for ...

After nearly seven decades of excavation, the legendary ancient city of Sardis has become a UNESCO World Heritage Site, ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according to research published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Researchers sequenced ...

I N 2011 A team of geneticists managed to recover centuries-old DNA from the teeth of bodies that had been buried in East Smithfield, a medieval cemetery in London. Besides human ...

Fragments of a star catalog from the second century B.C. have turned up in a manuscript that had been erased and written over centuries later. A new analysis of the religious manuscript shows that the ...