A team of archaeologists from LSU and the University of Texas at Tyler have excavated the earliest known ancient Maya salt works in southern Belize, as reported in the journal Antiquity. The team was ...

With funding from the National Science Foundation, a team of archaeologists from LSU and the University of Texas at Tyler ...

The fossil exposes remarkable features of the ancient sea dragon. One standout feature is its ... scientists have found ...

People have long projected stories onto the poignant casts of Pompeii’s victims. A new study uses ancient DNA analysis to ...

This week, uncover the secrets of Pompeii through ancient DNA, meet an adventurous emperor penguin, seek signs of mysterious ...

The Ministry of Ayush’s research body CCRAS launched a special issue of JDRAS, focusing on Ayurveda Aahara, a science-backed ...

Oracle bones were often made from tortoise shells, as in this photograph, and from the shoulder blades of oxen. According to archaeologists, a fortune teller would carve a question into the bone with ...

Forest bathing or forest therapy is the latest global wellness trend, and scientists understand all the more about its ...

When a volcanic eruption buried the ancient city of Pompeii, the last desperate moments of its citizens were preserved for ...

Analyzing a leg bone from a fossil site in Colombia, scientists have identified a massive “terror bird” that lived about 12 ...

These “miniature trails of destruction,” as the researchers call them, are caused by high-energy particles bouncing off the nucleus inside a rock, which knocks that nucleus out of place. The resulting ...

Liquid-filled rocks form when minerals trap fluids, but depending on their composition they can either be classed as enhydros ...