A rice farm in southern Brazil was just found to be home to the fossil of one of the missing links between the ground-based ...

His naval career spanned five decades, against a backdrop of power struggles across Europe. It was back in Orkney however that in October 1725 he was shot in the chest in Kirkwall ...

Researchers found that her diet primarily consisted of meat from megafauna, the largest animals in an ecosystem, particularly ...

Captain James Moodie died in 1725. He had received a scimitar and scabbard, a mace, and a dagger and sheath from Archduke Charles of Austria in 1707. Relatives have now donated the items to Orkney ...

However, several different types of winglets are on the market today, with the most common being blended winglets and split scimitar winglets. These are specifically designed to be retrofitted to ...

Who were the ancient Greeks? Who were the ancient Greeks? Discover different ancient Greek cities and find out how they were ruled. How did the Olympic Games begin? Learn how the Olympic Games ...

New discoveries by a UCF researcher and her team at the ancient Mesopotamian site of Kurd Qaburstan, including clay tablets with ancient cuneiform writing, a game board and large structural ...

Population of ancient Greece, Men weighing merchandise, side B of an Attic black-figure amphora. Credit: Marie-Lan Nguyen Wikimedia Commons CC BY 2.5 Estimating the population of ancient Greece is a ...

Ancient Egyptian person: Well it’s not! We need to know exactly when the river will flood, so that we plant our crops at the right time. That way, we can take advantage of all the nutrients left ...

Here’s how it works. An ancient and enigmatic stone circle in the Middle East may not be a prehistoric astronomical observatory after all, according to a new study of satellite images.

As a volcanic eruption darkened the sun roughly 4,900 years ago, a Stone Age culture sacrificed hundreds of decorated stone plaques to try to coax it back. A trove of engraved stones unearthed ...