Beneath the cliffs of western Colorado, a billion years of geologic history unfolds—and a century-old dream of accessibility ...

Beneath the cliffs of western Colorado, a billion years of geologic history unfolds—and a century-old dream of accessibility still shapes the land.

Every once in a while, archaeologists pull something out of the ground that makes us rethink what we thought we knew about ...

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

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

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

Tucked along Whitehall Road in Athens, the University of Georgia’s Laboratory of Archaeology, is home to an abundance of ...

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

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

The Dark Forest theory is one proposed solution to the famed Fermi Paradox, which has bewitched astronomers for more than half a century. To put it concisely, the paradox asks if the cosmos is nearly ...

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

The race is on to harness the near-infinite power of nuclear fusion—by building a star on Earth. And scientists are closer than you might think. Nuclear fusion in the sun occurs when hydrogen is ...