Truck driver Muhammad Afzal was not expecting to be stopped by police, let alone fined, as he drove into Islamabad this week because of the thick diesel fumes emanating from his exhaust pipe. "This is ...

It is possible that Brendan the Navigator, a 6th-century Irish monk, discovered America well before Christopher Columbus or ...

The ancestor of today’s great white shark was thought to be about eight metres long, the authors of a paper published in ...

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

Archaeologists discovered over 100 bullets at Culloden Battlefield, revealing new insights into the 1746 battle when Bonnie ...

Divers have discovered a long-submerged wall some 7,000 years old under the sea off western France, scientists said Thursday.

Archaeologists in Britain say they have found the earliest known evidence of deliberate fire-making, dating to around 400,000 ...

After more than a century of speculation, researchers have traced the likely origins of the legendary Hjortspring boat through chemical analysis of its construction materials and the discovery of an ...

FRENCH marine archaeologists have uncovered a colossal Stone Age wall off the coast of Brittany – and they believe it could ...

A young woman buried in China’s Tarim Basin some 2,000 years ago went to the afterlife accompanied by the height of fashion. The woman, who was wrapped in a felt blanket and buried in a coffin ...

Sophisticated new chemical analysis of gases trapped in rocks for millions of years has cast new light on the origin of the ...

“We don't really know at what point Celtic emerged. The earliest extant texts in a Celtic language date from the early sixth ...