But it now stands on the brink of oblivion. Shifting sands have long covered the ancient city's 8th-century core and are ...

We all hold the rock, possibly a discarded flake from a finished tool, but with an edge sharp enough to still slice flesh. Sun shines through a flake of obsidian rock found at an archaeological ...

In this work of art produced by Julius Csotonyi, a group of ancient people watch mammoths roam over sand dunes in Interior Alaska, north of Swan Point archaeological site.

Researchers determined that footprints in White Sands National Park in New Mexico are from the oldest migrants to North ...

The History Detectives head to the home of Mrs. Betsy Colie, the woman who stumbled upon the treasure, in an attempt to unlock the secrets held inside this stone with an etched face.

These ancient sand drawings could be a fifth type of palaeoart. ... they were made intentionally by people, though they probably didn’t mean much.

The remains of extinct Homo erectus dredged from the seabed off Java, along with thousands of animal fossils, are revealing a long-lost ecosystem.

Back in 2013, when the History Colorado Center shut down its first Sand Creek Massacre exhibition due to protests from Native Americans, it was more than a local scandal and an enduring embarrassme… ...

Across sweeping desert vistas, spectacular star dunes stand out. The distinctive mounds are among the tallest sand dunes on Earth, and their pyramid shapes are sculpted by a crossfire of winds ...

Based on the large size of the sand volcanoes, the quake must have been at least a 7 or an 8 magnitude — approaching the size of the Great 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Sediment reveals ancient ...

Some people don’t practice sand drawing at all. Others know a few rather simple drawings. “Experts”—designated as such by the rest of their society—have an impressive repertoire (up to ...