The excavation of a notorious jail recalls Virginia's leading role in the slave trade
A recently discovered pyramid and tomb in Egypt may shed light on a dark episode in a pharaonic tradition of court intrigue
Excavations at a cemetery in a Thai village reveal a 4,000-year-old indigenous culture
Author Sharon Waxman digs into the tangle over looted artifacts between the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Turkish government
Predating Stonehenge by 6,000 years, Turkey's stunning Gobekli Tepe upends the conventional view of the rise of civilization
The first dig in 44 years inside the stone circle changed our view of why—and even when—the monument was built
Near Mosul, war has helped and hindered efforts to excavate the 1,400-year-old Dair Mar Elia monastery
Dating the Fossils and Artifacts that Mark the Great Human Migration
Debate rages over an Indonesian fossil find
Why humans left their African homeland 80,000 years ago to colonize the world
The Natural History Museum's quartz cranium highlights the epic silliness of the new Indiana Jones movie
Footprints at one of the nation's oldest—and most fought over—fossil beds offer new clues to how the behemoths lived
A modern museum of ancient Greece rises near the Parthenon
Restoration of the 2,500-year-old temple is yielding new insights into the engineering feats of the golden age's master builders
On his voyage to the Americas in 1492, the explorer built a small fort somewhere in the Caribbean
Polar species heat up one of paleontology's great debates
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