The fourth-century residential city in the western desert is one of two major archaeological finds announced by Egypt on ...

The temple dates back to Egypt’s 26th Dynasty, the last native dynasty of ancient Egypt before the Persian conquest in 525 ...

An ancient human ancestor called Homo floresiensis was likely a scavenger who subsisted on the scraps left behind by the ...

Several millennia ago, as the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids, rainwater fell on the Ouachita Mountains in southern North America, trickling as deep as 8,000ft beneath the earth’s surface. Some 4 ...

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This summer’s mix includes some sci-fi and fantasy deep cuts, a Native botanist’s meditation on honoring nature, a mycologist’s celebration of fungi, novels set around the world, a memoir from ...

How much do you really know about Ancient Egypt? From building the pyramids to the secrets of the afterlife, we’re answering ...

The history of the land and the people of the expanse that became the United States pre-dates 1776 to include colonial times, ...

Plague has terrorized humans for millennia: In the 1300s the Black Death sparked the deadliest pandemic in human history, killing as many as half of all the people in Europe. Long before that, around ...

As the group stage of the World Cup begins, the team at USA TODAY Pets was wondering: Which iconic dog breeds originated from the various countries competing to be the best soccer team on the globe?

Ground squirrels spend many months in a winter slumber, and then awake ravenous and eat anything and everything in sight. A study of 700,000-year-old DNA from coprolites — fossilized poo — has now ...