Where Did the Black Death Begin? DNA Detectives Find a Key Clue.
Where and when did the Black Death originate? The question has been asked for centuries and led to heated debate…
Where and when did the Black Death originate? The question has been asked for centuries and led to heated debate…
The real chicken mystery has nothing to do with whether the egg came first. Scientists would like to know when,…
In the early 1930s, archaeologists in Pompeii made a remarkable discovery: the skeleton of a man who died during the…
The two kayakers were enjoying the last glimmers of summer on the Minnesota River last September when they spotted an…
When the builders started digging the foundation of a house in 2017 in Başbük, a village in Turkey about 70…
The cave meanders for two miles under northern Alabama, with passages that veer into mysterious so-called dark zones, sediment deposits,…
In 2012, the authorities in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas entered a dark cave and confronted a ghastly site:…
In “The Handbook of the Indians of California,” published in 1925, the anthropologist Alfred Kroeber pronounced the Ohlone people “extinct…
The tropics are a paradise for everyone but a skeleton. Humidity keeps rainforests green but does little to preserve bodies,…
At the end of the last ice age, South America was home to strange animals that have since vanished into…