Lady Dorothy Mills trailblazed her own path as a explorer becoming the first English women in Timbuktu as well as travelling ...

This photo provided by João Zilhão shows forearm bone fragments belonging to an ancient child that appeared to have features from both humans and Neanderthals. (João Zilhão via AP) 33,571 ...

ASHBOURNE, England (AP) — This ancient form of soccer has a rule forbidding players from murdering each other. Every year, thousands of people descend on a small town in the English countryside ...

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This ancient period of deep freeze, known as the Neoproterozoic Era, or “Snowball Earth,” lasted from about 1 billion to 543 million years ago. During that time, landmasses consolidated into a ...

Why, that would have to be Mali, where you find Timbuktu, the fabled Niger River ... It’s watching a blacksmith ply his ancient art, catching the banter at the well between two women gathering ...

But those experts may have a surprising new answer thanks to new research that shows the ancient people of the Philippines and ISEA may have mastered seafaring well before anyone else. Proving ...

From the rover's point of view on the ground, it's hard to tell, but this ancient shoreline on Mars seemed to lie inside a 2,050-mile-wide (3,300-kilometer-wide) impact crater called Utopia Basin.

A new study of ancient DNA from fifth- to sixth-century Hun skeletons suggests they were a motley crew of mixed origin with a few connections to the Xiongnu Empire in Mongolia.

Researchers initially thought the tomb belonged to a royal wife. Then they unearthed fragments of alabaster jars that identified it as Thutmose II’s Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent Pottery shards ...