Around 9,000 years ago, East Antarctica went through a dramatic meltdown that was anything but isolated. Scientists have discovered that warm deep ocean water surged beneath the region’s floating ice ...

In a study published in the Journal of Coastal and Island Archaeology, Dr. Thomas Leppard and his colleagues, John Cherry and ...

The academic journal Research on Hongshan Culture was officially launched in Shenyang, Liaoning province, on Sunday, marking the establishment of a long-term, systematic platform for academic exchange ...

As the map shows, the naked land beneath the Antarctic ice sheet is a rugged land, covered in mountain ranges, gorges, and jagged terrain. Remarkably, one part of the bed found under the Byrd Glacier ...

Ancient deserts still keep secrets, but today’s tools are finally fast enough to hear them. In Peru, a fusion of fieldwork and artificial intelligence is ...

Kayleigh joins fellow creator Jahannah James on a private exploration of the British Museum’s ancient exhibits. Together they ...

As recently as the 1990s, when the Greenland Ice Sheet and the rest of the Arctic region were measurably thawing under the climatic blowtorch of human-caused global warming, most of Antarctica’s vast ...

Archaeologists say they have found some rare artifacts beneath an Ohio tavern that burned down last December.They were found under the Overfield Tavern in Troy, Ohio, a two-story log building ...

Sir Ernest Shackleton's lost Endurance shipwreck has been discovered at the bottom of Antarctica's Weddell Sea. And while this isn’t a discovery from the ancient world, it packs such a historically ...

New study by a Turkish archaeology team has revealed that Ayvalık was once connected to a vast coastal plain — a natural bridge between continents when seas during the Ice Age were considerably lower.

Polynesian peoples were sailing far and wide across the southwestern Pacific Ocean long ago, demonstrating a seafaring skill that is both impressive and awe-inspiring. The archaeologists and ...

This is Antarctica. Stark white desolation as far as the eye can see. It is *** vast frozen continent at the bottom of the world, where temperatures drop to nearly 130 degrees below zero. *** barren ...