In May 1967, a group of six Williams College students read about Columbus the elephant, who was buried in Lenox, and enlisted ...

In Brussels, Belgium, archaeologists recently uncovered the remnants of an ancient cemetery in a bustling area of the city. The skeletons date back to the Middle Ages.

The fossil, called Penghu 1, is one of the few known pieces of physical evidence from the Denisovans, extinct relatives of ...

Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious 1,700-year-old altar whose bright decorations and ...