The motif first appeared in Dunhuang in the sixth century and later spread along the ancient Silk Road to Central Asia, West ...

While much of Sogdian culture may be lost to time, some of their structures still stand, including the ruins of an ornate ...

A newly discovered dinosaur species has been identified from a fossil unearthed in Mongolia that represents the most complete ...

Using uranium-lead dating, researchers calculated the age of the eggs, rather than the sediments around them, at the ...

Shamahi charts humanity's evolutionary odyssey. We sat down with her to discuss the path of our species out of Africa to ...

Scientists have dated the earliest-known fortified settlement built by humans, and they were stunned by the identity of its ...

A Yale-trained geologist has spent more than 30 years studying Egypt's Great Sphinx and come to a stunning new theory.

Did the Minoan writing system known as Linear A come from Egyptian hieroglyphics, or was it an independent invention?

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USF and FAU researchers identify bacterium behind 1,500-year-old pandemic mystery. For the first time, scientists have obtained direct genomic evidence of the bacterium responsible for the Plague of ...

What are the first things that spring to mind when you hear the name “Mexico”? Perhaps you get images of sombreros or giant cacti. Or maybe tacos, margaritas, tequila or mariachi bands? If you are ...