The site sits within sediments that record major environmental upheaval in East Africa during the late Pliocene. Around 3.44 ...

Ancient Greek thinkers, from Hesiod to Plato, and later Rousseau saw in the noble savage a vision of lost divine harmony and ...

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Archaeologists have recently proposed that the Gunung Padang site in Indonesia, long considered the world’s oldest pyramid, ...

Learn how early hominins crafted the same sharp-edged Oldowan tools through 300,000 years of climate change, revealing one of ...

Modern technology, new excavations and curious amateurs have helped unearth some of the world's greatest treasures in the ...

Cheney - the VP under President Bush from 2001 to 2009 - died from complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular ...

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Marvel Cave in Branson, Missouri is exactly that kind of place—an underground realm so spectacular it seems plucked straight from the pages of a fantasy novel. This isn’t just another tourist trap ...