We've feasted on them, built economies around them and in some places nearly erased them from our coasts. Today, 85% of the ...
A remarkable discovery in Crete has reinvigorated debate over the origins behind the ancient Greek myth of the labyrinth.
A career in historic preservation lets history majors channel their passion for the past into the work of safeguarding the buildings and neighborhoods that help tell the stories of a community. Below ...
Isotope and trace element analyses of human tissues provide archaeologists with unique opportunities to make unprecedented ...
Emotional archaeology helps uncover the deeper feelings beneath ADHD reactions. By slowing down and exploring layers we move ...
The International Space Station is one of the most remarkable achievements of the modern age. It is the largest, most complex ...
When the International Space Station plunges to its fiery doom in 2030 its loss to science will be incalculable, even if it ...
Archaeologists working near Temple Mount in Jerusalem were exploring a pile of earth from an ancient drainage canal. They found a few artifacts, including a seemingly unimportant broken piece of ...
Hygieia was a prominent figure in both ancient Greek and Roman mythology—she was the daughter of Asclepius, the god of medicine. Hygieia (from whose name we get the word ‘hygiene’) was known as the ...
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 ...
Aoife Sutton-Butler talks with PEOPLE about her job as a cemetery registrar and why she doesn't see it as 'morbid.' ...
The green mummified remains of a teenager buried in Italy 200 to 400 years ago have given us new insights into the ...