History News

A new genus and species of dinosaur from the Early Jurassic has been discovered in Antarctica. The massive sauropodomorph is called Glacialisaurus hammeri and lived about 190 million years ago.

Although most scientists believe tuberculosis emerged only several thousand years ago, new research reveals the most ancient evidence of the disease has been found in a 500,000-year-old human fossil from Turkey.

Dennis Myllyla thought he'd struck a fine bargain with the Michigan Department of Transportation. MDOT would get fill for nearby highway construction by dredging a pond on his farm near Arnheim, Mich., and Myllyla would get the pond.

Remains of an ancient synagogue from the Roman-Byzantine era have been revealed in excavations carried out in the Arbel National Park in the Galilee under the auspices of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Achaeologists in Italy have announced they have found a cave believed to be where legendary brothers Remus and Romulus were suckled by a wolf as babies.

The earliest known use of cacao––the source of our modern day chocolate––has been pushed back more than 500 years, to somewhere between 1400 and 1100 B.C.E.

A 110 million-year-old dinosaur that had a mouth that worked like a vacuum cleaner, hundreds of tiny teeth and nearly translucent skull bones was unveiled Thursday, Nov. 15, at the National Geographic Society.

New excavations conducted by the University of Tabingen (Germany) and the Onsekiz Mart University of Çanakkale (Turkey) at the site of Sirkeli Hayak near Adana (southern Turkey) have revealed the remains of a massive bastion fortification.

Utrecht University Old Testament scholar Dr Marjo Korpel has discovered that a seal found in 1964 and dating from the 9th century BCE belonged to the biblical figure Queen Jezebel.

A series of monumental volcanic eruptions in India may have killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, not a meteor impact in the Gulf of Mexico.