Explore Pennsylvania’s ancient treasures that offer a glimpse into the past and will captivate history enthusiasts.

Just like in the modern world, people in ancient times wanted to know how to live a long and healthy life. Greeks and Romans ...

Located just above town in the historic settlement of Phoenix, the Eagle River Upper Falls, nicknamed Ten Foot Falls by locals, compresses a lot of drama into a compact drop. The water lunges over a ...

Missouri has a secret cooling system that doesn’t require an HVAC technician or a monthly utility bill. Devil’s Icebox in ...

Connected to Shades is Pine Hills Nature Preserve, which somehow manages to be even more rugged than the main park. This preserve protects some of the oldest forest in Indiana, with trees that were ...

There are many open questions about how our planet formed 4.55 billion years ago: When did plate tectonics start? When did the Earth's mantle begin to vigorously circulate in a process called ...

Houchin and his colleagues studied dozens of zircon crystals from the Jack Hills in Western Australia. These are the oldest ...

A sediment-washing “bubbler” helped researchers recover 65.5-million-year-old teeth that illuminate how early primate ...

Tiny, tooth-sized fossils have just reshaped the story of our deepest ancestry. Paleontologists have discovered the southernmost remains ever found of Purgatorius—the earliest-known relative of all ...

A new DNA analysis suggests that the genetic legacy of the Mongol Empire is likely more complicated than historians previously assumed ...

Unretouched triangular microlithic projectile points have been identified from their impact traces in the oldest occupation layers of the Obi-Rakhmat site in Uzbekistan, dating to 80,000 years ago.

Tiny triangular-shaped flints from arrowheads found in Uzbekistan shed light on how the first settlement of ‘Homo sapiens’ – ...