Scientists reached Antarctic bedrock after drilling 1.7 miles through more than a million years of ice deposits on the white continent, they announced Jan. 9.

New archaeological evidence is helping rewrite old myths about disabled people in the ancient world. Early Roman Empire depiction of a Freedman and Freedwoman, 30-15 BCE. British Museum, London, UK.

Two months ago, Egyptian authorities finally started welcoming the public into the luxurious Luxor tomb of the renowned pharaoh Amenhotep III. Yesterday, Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Between 128,000 and 186,000 years ago, when ice covered the Sierra Nevada, a lake 100 miles long and 600 feet deep ...

Google released the December 2025 core update today, the company announced. This is the third core update of 2025 and the fourth major Google algorithm update overall. Earlier this year, Google rolled ...

Google has released the December 2025 core update, its third of the year. The rollout began December 11 and may take up to three weeks. Google released the December 2025 core update on December 11, ...

Underwater archaeologists announced Monday they had discovered the 2,000-year-old wreck of an ancient Egyptian pleasure boat off the coast of Alexandria. Divers found the vessel's hull, which was more ...

Scientists may finally be closing in on the origins of two colossal, mysterious structures buried nearly 1,800 miles inside Earth—hidden formations that have puzzled researchers for decades. New ...

A 4,300-year-old silver goblet unearthed in the West Bank is engraved the earliest known depiction of the universe’s creation — a scene strikingly similar to the Book of Genesis, a new study revealed.

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 ...

For only the second time, researchers have obtained the full genome of a Denisovan, a group of ancient humans who lived in Asia. The DNA was extracted from a single 200,000-year-old tooth found in a ...