In an excerpt from his new book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean explores a weird and wild '90s experiment to replicate ancient ...

The remains, known as the Spirit Cave Mummy, were first excavated in 1940 and initially ... The study, led by archaeologist ...

The skeletons of the duck-billed dinosaurs, Edmontosaurus Annectens – which lived more than 66 million years ago in the late ...

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Now, groundbreaking research published in the Journal of Cultural Heritage has finally unraveled the chemical mystery behind this extraordinary preservation phenomenon. The teenage boy's remains, ...

A paleontologist was trying to locate the site of a famous 1908 discovery when a rancher in Wyoming shared an important clue.

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Whether it's an ancient death mask found on an Egyptian sarcophagus or the selfie you have just cropped on your phone, we have been creating portraits for centuries. So why do we love them so much?

Forty-one years ago, on this day (), India’s Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was killed as she stepped out of her New Delhi ...

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You’ll get spooky stories, eerie views, and a crash course of London’s history – the perfect way to get a sleepless Halloween ...