"Like pieces of a giant archaeological puzzle." Built on Egypt's Mediterranean coast during the third century B.C.E., the ...

This video shows the Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan, Mexico, one of the largest ancient structures in the Americas. The ...

By collecting about 1,000 fragments and painstakingly assembling the pieces, archaeologists restored a scene depicting the ...

The Hoba meteorite in Namibia is the largest known natural piece of iron on Earth, weighing about 60 metric tons today. By ...

Archaeologists have discovered what is believed to be India’s largest known ancient stone labyrinth in Khadki shedding fresh light on Satavahana-era trade network linking Deccan to Roman world ...

For decades, scientists have known that the Ontong Java Plateau, the world's largest oceanic plateau, was created by an ...

Operations Section Chief Brad Washa with the Alaska Incident Management Team said in an update Friday morning that 851 structures have been destroyed. At least 337 are homes. The fire, which started ...

At the end of the last Ice Age, 13,000 years ago, North America was not a frozen wasteland. Though it was cold, it was a dry, windy grassland with dense growths of flowering herbs and sedges. Herds of ...

Hailed as the world's largest and most comprehensive presentation of ancient American civilizations, the exhibition showcases nearly 3,000 artifacts from Mexico and Peru. [Photo by Gao ...

The opening ceremony of the exhibition On Top of the World Tree: Ancient Civilizations of the Americas is held at Shanghai Museum on People's Square on July 8. [Photo by Gao Erqiang/chinadaily.com.cn] ...

Tooth fossils hint that size came before specialised feeding in early Asian mammals. The story of how mammals rose to prominence after the extinction that ended the age of dinosaurs is often told ...