discoveries

The Chachapoyas were long considered the fiercest warriors of the Andes. Recent archaeological discoveries paint a completely different picture. Far from being bloodthirsty and morbid, this people maintained an intimate ...

Yakutia extends beneath the polar circle to the east of Siberia. This land is home to a unique ...

Nestled in the Iranian highlands lies the cradle of the Persian Empire. Persians built the city of Persepolis, ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—ExxonMobil said Wednesday that it made two additional oil discoveries off the coast of Guyana ...

DALLAS—A vast field of shale rock in West Texas could yield 20 billion barrels of oil, making it ...

A mysterious 13th century manuscript—an astronomy guide—that was long believed to be an elaborate hoax was recently declared ...

An Earth-like planet 1,200 light years away "could be habitable," researchers have said. According to new computer simulations, ...

Many consider the deep-sea just as fascinating and mysterious as space, as we have yet to develop an ...

Mummies of humans and other animals have been found on every continent. Here we feature ten unique mummy ...