Some of the recent advances in the quest to catch a whiff of history are featured in the new book Scents of Arabia: ...

The Oklo reactor in Gabon operated 1.7 billion years ago with self-regulating 3-hour cycles for 150,000 years, consuming 10,000 pounds of uranium.

Unlike the carefully wrapped mummies of ancient Egypt or naturally preserved human remains found in bogs and deserts, dinosaur mummies are created when skin and soft tissues fossilise over millions of ...

Tendron (left), a member of the Nyemo county's fourth national culture relic survey team, and Tsering Yangzom (right), a member of the Lhasa city's team, conduct a survey at a newly discovered cliff ...

Archaeologists discovered a 6400–6100 B.C. sandstone figurine in Azerbaijan’s Damjili Cave, marking a rare find from the ...

A new study sheds light on how these reptiles become “mummies” and paints a picture of what these ancient animals looked like ...

The proto-nursing home was found in the ruins of the ancient city of Hippos just 2km east of the Sea of Galilee ...

Researchers have discovered chemical fingerprints of Earth's earliest incarnation, preserved in ancient mantle rocks. A ...

If you look closer at the building stones, tiles and pavements of the big city, you can find a hidden world of geology and ...

In the heart of the ancient Roman city of Gabii, located just 11 miles east of Rome, a team of archaeologists led by ...

A strange Cambrian fossil named Salterella may hold the key to understanding how early animals first built skeletons. As the ...

FILE - The UNESCO logo hangs from a podium in Paris, Nov. 14, 2023. PARIS (AP) — UNESCO is slated to have its first director from the Arab world after an Egyptian former tourism and antiquities ...