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700-year-old bronze ring bearing image of St. Nicholas discovered in Galilee

A rare and impressive intact bronze ring from the Middle Ages, bearing the image of St. Nicholas, was discovered by chance during recent lan...

A Roman-era sarcophagus, believed to date back 2000 years, has been unearthed during a construction work in Istanbul’s Kadıköy district, dai...

Egypt says archaeologists have discovered parts of a statue of one of its most famous pharaohs in the southern city of Aswan. The head of a ...

Geochronologists from the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) have led a study published in the journal Quat...

Plumes of hot magma from the volcanic hotspot that formed Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean rise from an unusually primitive source deep be...

A scientist with the Canadian Museum of Nature has answered a long-standing mystery about why fossils of ankylosaurs -- the "armoured t...

Fossilized bones of two new species of tiny, flightless extinct birds have been discovered by Australasian scientists in 19 to 16-million-ye...

Rainforest loss is fuelling a tsunami of tropical species extinctions. However, not all is doom and gloom. A new study, conducted in the Bra...

Long ago, about 400,000 years after the beginning of the universe (the Big Bang), the universe was dark. There were no stars or galaxies, an...

A new explanation for the Moon's origin has it forming inside the Earth when our planet was a seething, spinning cloud of vaporized rock...

A team of astrophysicists and planetary scientists has predicted that Neptune-like planets located near the center of the Milky Way were tra...

A sunken marine port structure in the Gulf of Aqaba was unveiled on Monday as findings of Jordan’s first underwater archaeological expeditio...

A team of scientists including researchers from Washington State University has shown for the first time that nicotine residue can be extrac...

Not too many people are able to identify birds by examining a single feather. But a number of folks need to know that sort of thing, and it ...

Chris Rodning, the Paul and Debra Gibbons Professor in the Tulane School of Liberal Arts’ Department of Anthropology, unravels early entangl...

New genetic research reveals the complex demographic history of Vanuatu, explaining how Austronesian languages were retained throughout its ...