Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

Archaeologists have discovered what may be the earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making.

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National Geographic Explorer Peter Campell provides an inside look at the early stages of a heritage crime investigation.

For five short December days each year, sunlight pierces the heart of Newgrange, a 5,200-year-old tomb whose perfect ...

Calakmul remained relatively undisturbed until gum harvesters in Mexico led an American botanist to them in 1931. Here’s what ...

When weird fungal epidemics crop up in far-flung places, scientists work together to unravel how the microscopic murderers ...

When the 3 rd -century Christian theologian Origen of Alexandria attempted to account for the unusual movements of the Star ...

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

Traditional sources and scholars have long hypothesized the location of this sacred chest. But tracing its whereabouts is ...

Now, a new DNA analysis of a sprawling set of ancient feline remains reveal that the precursors to modern housecats ...