Performers dressed in dramatic costumes move through the crowd, reenacting ancient rituals to drums and chants echoing across the city. The crowd—locals and tourists alike—comes for the ...

In this region, sprawling channel networks stretch from the highlands and drain into ancient lakes — possibly even an ocean. NASA's Perseverance rover is currently exploring one of these sites ...

Deinosuchus could then have spread across the continent to inhabit coastal marshes on both sides of the ancient inland sea, and along North America’s Atlantic coast. The new study’s revised ...

An ancient Middle Eastern civilization that developed an early alphabet spread its culture far and wide — but not its DNA, finds a 23 April Nature study 1 of hundreds of ancient human genomes.

Within the framework of the Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean, co-directed by Johannes Krause, Director at the Max Planck Institute for ...

Gladiators also were pitted against animals. While there are depictions of these contests in ancient mosaics and texts, actual forensic evidence has been elusive, until now. Scientists have ...

The "Eye of Horus," a depiction of a single stylized eye looking straight ahead, is found throughout ancient Egypt. The symbol is frequently seen in ancient burials — especially on a type of ...

It was as far away from Woodstock as possible. The performance was filmed over six days in October 1971 in the ancient amphitheatre, with the band playing three songs in the ancient venue ...

So if both water and carbon dioxide were present during Mars’ ancient past, then so should evidence of carbonate minerals. Previous discoveries, however, weren’t able to find sufficient ...

An often overlooked ancient pyramid in Mexico was filled with pools of a rare element in its underground chambers, leading to new theories that the structure may have had a shocking hidden purpose.

After a pope dies, the Catholic Church chooses its next leader through an ancient electoral process called the "papal conclave." In practice, since at least 1276, the conclave gathers the church ...