In 2017, astronomers on board the International Space Station photographed two eerie islands in Ethiopia. Dek and Daga lie in Lake Tana, whose copper-tinted waters have been important geographically ...

Heneghan Peng beat stiff competition to design Cairo’s Grand Egyptian Museum partly by luck, they say, but mostly by ‘looking’ ...

New research has identified a dinosaur "mummy zone" in a series of ravines near Lusk, Wyoming. It's produced two mummies of a fleshy dinosaur with ...

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

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, ...

The green mummified remains of a teenager buried in Italy 200 to 400 years ago have given us new insights into the ...

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

Did you know there are locations all around Salt Lake City that are said to be "hotspots for paranormal activity?" From the ...

Exceptionally preserved “dinosaur mummies” of the duck-billed Edmontosaurus have unveiled the first-known reptile hooves, ...

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

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