The discovery of the settlements over the years has led to a new understanding of the Asia Minor and Anatolia regions.

A digital atlas of ancient Rome’s highways and byways reveals a road network that was more extensive than thought.

A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human evolution from her spot on the family tree.

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

Less than a century after it was rediscovered, National Geographic's correspondent explored the ruins of Petra and found its ...

A new radiocarbon study has clarified the timing of the colossal Thera eruption, placing it before Egypt’s New Kingdom.

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.

Scientists linked a mystery fossil foot to a tree-climbing human ancestor that likely lived alongside Lucy's species 3.4 ...

For the first time in roughly 12,000 years, a long‑quiet volcano in Ethiopia has roared back to life, sending fountains of ...

A new study published in Nature on November 26 has shed light on the origins, population structures, and kinship systems of ...

Two millenniums before blastoff, astronomy belonged as much to the realms of art, philosophy and religion as it did to what ...

Now, in a study published Tuesday called "Mystery owner of African hominin foot identified," the scientists announced that ...