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Knapsacks shouldered and bibles in hand, a group of Christian pilgrims from Indonesia, China and the United States trooped into the remains of a fourth-century church in ancient Philadelphia last...
At a glance, it would be tempting to call Poposaurus gracilis a dinosaur. This 225-million-year-old reptile stood on two legs, had small forelimbs, and sported a long, tapering tail that allowed it...
More than 500 extrasolar planets--planets that orbit stars other than the sun--have been discovered since 1995. But only in the last few years have astronomers observed that in some of these systems,...
Humanity's profound impact on this planet is hard to deny, but is it big enough to merit its own geological epoch? This is the question facing geoscientists gathered in London this week to debate the...
Experts say no more than 70 people lived in North America during the initial settlement of the continent between 12,000 and 14,000 years ago. The new DNA study by Professor Jody Hey of...
A 2,300-year climate record University of Pittsburgh researchers recovered from an Andes Mountains lake reveals that as temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere rise, the planet’s densely populated...
Switzerland's Museum of Basel will this week return to Egypt a limestone stele dating from over four thousand years ago - the first ancient treasure to be given back by another country since the...
Romania has recovered more of a priceless ancient treasure, stolen years ago from the archaeological site of Sarmisegetusa Regia, the head of the national history museum said Wednesday. A...
If an extra terrestrial civilization were to study the history of Earth, they would most likely conclude that this is the planet of the dinosaurs, giant reptiles who ruled the world for hundreds of...
History above ground and history below — it’s all there for the careful eye and careful hand of archaeological investigators like Tim Mulvihill, research station archaeologist at the University of...
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