A parent that never left. A nest that never hatched. And a fossil that, researchers say, finally proves dinosaurs cared for their young. It sounds like the…

In the winter of 1993, miners deep in a salt mine in northwestern Iran made a discovery that stopped them cold. A man. A face. Long hair,…

There’s a particular kind of silence that comes from a room no living person has entered in 2,600 years. That’s what archaeologists in central Italy say they…

Beneath the jungle of Mexico’s Yucatán, the earth opens into deep, water-filled sinkholes called cenotes. To us, they’re stunning natural pools. To the ancient Maya, they were…

Just outside the Chinese city of Xi’an, a grassy hill rises from the plain. It looks like an ordinary, tree-covered mound. It is anything but. Beneath it…

For more than four thousand years, the Great Pyramid of Giza has stood as the most studied building on Earth. Explorers have tunnelled into it, scholars have…

High on a mountain pass that armies, traders, and pilgrims have crossed for two thousand years, the ice is letting go of its secrets. On a cold…

Deep in the caves of Ice Age Europe, alongside the famous painted bulls, horses and lions, our ancestors left something far stranger and, in some ways, far…

In the sun-scorched plains of what is now Uzbekistan, a strange shape rises from the earth — a vast, almost perfect circle, ringed by the faint scar…