A widely-used online Ukrainian battlefield map appeared to show Ukrainian forces no longer in control of the town of Sudzha in Russia's Kursk region on Wednesday.

The Imago Mundi, the oldest known world map, offers a rare glimpse into the way ancient Babylonians viewed their world.

The Ancient City houses the strange and massive portal-like structure at the center. This portal consists of strange blocks that are harder than Obsidian and take longer time to break it. So, ...

Since the 1970s, Charles Gaines (previously) has been charting the sprawling, unpredictable forms of trees onto numbered grids. He began with walnut trees in 1975, which he photographed while barren ...

A rare skull found in Egypt reveals Bastetodon, a top predator from 30 million years ago. This discovery rewrites what we know about ancient carnivores, proving that African hyaenodonts had their own ...

The tiny cuts and grooves that decorate some ancient human artifacts are not just pretty accidents, according to some archaeologists. The subtle patterns could be early signs of creativity and ...

At first whiff, it sounds repulsive: sniff the essence of an ancient corpse. But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the name of science found that well-preserved Egyptian mummies actually ...

Even after 5,000 years in a sarcophagus, mummified bodies from ancient Egypt still smell quite nice, scientists have discovered. Researchers who examined nine mummies found that though there was ...

A perfectly preserved ancient tree fossil offered scientists an unprecedented view into a moment 42,000 years ago when the Earth’s magnetic field went haywire. The compelling 2021 study tells ...

Armed conflict on the Ukraine may end in a month or two with a "painful compromise," according to the head of the Kiev city administration Vitali Klitschko. According to the Ukrainian edition of ...