There's a little thrill that comes when you read about people from long-vanished worlds. Their ruins whisper, their myths ...

New fossil discovery reveals 535 million-year-old worms, annelids, that were already crawling and swimming, reshaping early ...

The holidays celebrating parental figures are coming up. Here's everything Nevadans need to know about Mother's Day and ...

A female Anopheles quadrimaculatus mosquito takes a blood meal from a host. For millennia, this mosquito has spread malaria.

Decoded cuneiform tablets reveal early societies’ magic, politics, and bureaucracy, including rare rituals, king lists, and ...

Human history is littered with expired civilizations, and scholars and archaeologists have made a determined effort to ...

High in the rugged peaks of the South Caucasus, archaeologists have uncovered the sprawling remnants of a forgotten ...

Cecrops, Athens’ first king, banned bloody sacrifices and reformed worship with laws, morality, and symbolic offerings.

By analyzing ancient and modern DNA, scientists are uncovering the genetic origins of the Greek people, shaped over millennia ...

A recent study argues that a medieval ophthalmologist who translated Greek works by Galen, Hippocrates, and Plato from Greek into Arabic played a pivotal role in shaping Western medical scholarship.

Erich von Däniken proposed that monumental structures such as the pyramids could have been built with help from aliens. Stefan Baumann Could ancient humans really have built the pyramids without ...

Jefferson County native Daniel Pierce’s recent two-week expedition to the Amazon rainforest in search of an ancient civilization was so successful he’s hoping to return this summer for a larger ...