Lake Mendota in Wisconsin proved to be an unexpected hub for tremendous discoveries dating back to thousands of years ago.

Tell Umm Hammad is located 7 kilometres (km) southwest of modern-day Deir ʿAlla, between the foothills of the Rift Valley and the perennial waters of the Jordan and Zarqa rivers. The site is placed ...

The site, which is about 2,500 square feet, contains 17 burial pits filled with the well-preserved remains of 18 individuals.

From a Mediterranean shipwreck to a mosaic on display in Washington DC, these are the discoveries that made scholars of the ...

Bronze Age combat, moral philosophy and Reddit’s AITA, Mondrian’s fractal tree, and seven other fascinating papers.

The record date, or date of record, is the cutoff date established by a company to determine which shareholders are officially on the books and are therefore eligible to receive an upcoming dividend.

Archaeologists in France recently unearthed a 1,700-year-old ring engraved with an ancient religious motif. The ornately ...

Archaeologists are beginning to reveal the secrets of a vanished prehistoric land which now lies at the bottom of the North ...

An over 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy who may have died of the bubonic plague marks the first case of the disease outside the ...

The twin lakes, known as Zerelia, in Greece are rare examples of bodies of water that were formed from the cataclysmic impact ...

The gold ring (shown above) was found on that road, and dates to roughly the same time period. The ring is a Roman nicolo, ...