Many Indians are reluctant to provide DNA for study. “We have always maintained that The Ancient One is a relative of ours,” said Jim Boyd, chairman of the Colville Confederated Tribes. The Colville ...

A 400-year-old map could reveal the secrets of a lost English colony that experts have spent hundreds of years searching for.

Rome authorities this month opened a new archaeological park and museum in the shadow of the Colosseum that features an original marble map of Ancient Rome that visitors can literally walk over.

A pair of ancient nematodes or microscopic roundworms that lived in the Pleistocene era, when woolly mammoths still roamed the Earth, have been revived by scientists. The surprising discovery ...

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Following the mutiny of his army, Alexander the Great was forced to abandon his eastward march. In response, he turned his ...

It takes the about a month to orbit around the Earth and complete the lunar cycle. Feb. 12 marks the second moon phase, and the full Snow Moon.

Frontier inhabitants were eager to strike at the British in Canada because they suspected them of arming Native American tribes that were standing in the way of America's westward expansion.

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...

When the Romans invaded in AD43, they really liked Ancient Britain, but they weren't too impressed with the Ancient Britons. The Romans pretty much thought they were better at everything ...

PGC 2018-093925-B-C32 (MICIN), 2017SGR-1040 (AGAUR), and 2019PFR-URV-91 (URV). The contribution of NA was supported by the Pathways to Ancient Britain Project funded by the Calleva Foundation. The ...

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