Can a continent disappear? Many cultures have stories of vanishing islands or cities swept away by tidal waves. But is there ...

The smaller geoglyphs were along ancient winding trails likely made throughout the desert by Nazca people viewing the symbols in small groups, according to the study. The bigger Nazca symbols were ...

“The fossil pollen, spores, and wood presented in this study paint a much different picture of the ancient environment, providing direct evidence of the presence of cool, wet forests.

The Phaistos disk from circa 1700 B.C. The signs were not engraved using a stylus but rather pressed onto the wet clay using molds or seals in a kind of ancient typesetting. One of the great ...

Kramer said the surplus pieces from Titan’s second hull had “several anomalies within the composite and the adhesive joints, including waviness, wrinkles, porosity and voids.” Bulges in the ...

Don Kramer testified during the U.S. Coast Guard's hearing on the implosion. A piece of the Titan's carbon-fiber hull recovered after the submersible's deadly catastrophic implosion showed ...

The genetic profile of the Xiaohe goat was similar to that of goats belonging to ancient Eurasian steppe people, meaning the Xiaohe may have learned animal husbandry and cheese-making from them.

Think of it as an architectural moussaka. At the bottom are remnants of the ancient city dating back to the fifth century BCE, tucked underneath Metro stations, clothes shops and residential ...

Population of ancient Greece, Men weighing merchandise, side B of an Attic black-figure amphora. Credit: Marie-Lan Nguyen Wikimedia Commons CC BY 2.5 Estimating the population of ancient Greece is a ...

The Wichita, Kansas-based supplier has checked paperwork and hundreds of thousands of parts dating to 2010, the earliest date for its records, after discovering anomalies last month in reports ...