The geology of the ocean floor is truly spectacular — perhaps even more than land geology. Unfortunately, it's really hard to ...

The oldest known wooden plank boat in Scandinavia has yielded an unexpectedly intimate clue about the people who once rode it ...

Deep beneath the French countryside, a set of faint engravings on a cave floor is forcing archaeologists to rethink when ...

What is the oldest country in the world? Depending on who you ask, you’ll get a variety of responses. Some might say it’s a ...

Published in Zürich in 1525, Lucas Cranach the Elder’s map came at a moment when the modern idea of nation-states was only ...

From 400-year-old globes to cosmic funeral shrouds, how the Osher Map Library in Maine shows people that maps aren't just for navigation — but windows into history, culture, and how we see the world.

The Supreme Court is allowing the challenged Texas congressional redistricting plan to be used in next year’s election, despite a lower-court ruling that the map likely discriminates on the basis of r ...

Hannah the Hippo, born Nov. 22, 1973 celebrated her special day at the San Diego Humane Society’s Ramona Wildlife Center Hannah the hippo will become the world's oldest known living pygmy hippopotamus ...

Assam's largest city Guwahati is set to make its debut as the newest Test centre on Saturday when India take on South Africa in the second and final game of the two-match series.

The Mayan monument of Aguada Fénix, built about 3 thousand years ago in south-eastern Mexico, is at the center of new research from the University of Arizona: it could be the oldest monumental ...

These longtime lovebirds are a rare breed. The newly crowned “oldest married couple” in the world is an adorable pair of former Big Apple centenarians who met during World War II — and now swear by ...

Finding the oldest Maya site ever documented was only the beginning of archaeologist Takeshi Inomata’s discoveries. After locating the Aguada Fénix site buried in the jungle of southern Mexico in 2017 ...