History News

An extraordinary track of footprints was found in April this year in the Jura plateau at Plagne, near the southeastern city of Lyon, by a pair of amateur fossil-hunters.

A new study that reports precise ages for glacial moraines in southern Peru links climate swings in the tropics to those of Europe and North America during the Little Ice Age approximately 150 to 350 years ago.

Using a mathematical model to predict population trends based on ancient coin hoards, historians have concluded that the population of ancient Rome was smaller than sometimes suggested.

The findings may lead to a better understanding of historical continental movement, which relates to changes in climate.

Climate change wreaked havoc on the Earth’s first rainforests but they quickly bounced back, scientists reveal.

Tiny organisms that covered the planet more than 250 million years ago appear to be a species of ancient fungus that thrived in dead wood, according to new research published October 1 in the journal Geology.

Scientists have found the "Rosetta Stone" of supervolcanoes, those giant pockmarks in the Earth's surface produced by rare and massive explosive eruptions that rank among nature's most violent events.

A 9-foot dinosaur from northeastern China had evolved all the hallmark anatomical features of Tyrannosaurus rex at least 125 million years ago.

Sussita, which is the central area of the Roman city was built in the second century B.C., existed through the Roman and Byzantine periods and was destroyed in the great earthquake of 749 A.D.

A rare and surprising archaeological discovery at Tel Dor: A gemstone engraved with the portrait of Alexander the Great was uncovered during excavations by an archaeological team.