There is an art to rivalry. Mastering its rules has, since ancient times, shaped cultural history over millennia.

The royal symbol on the newly discovered figurines solves a long-standing mystery by identifying who was buried in the ...

Cornwall has several stone circles, and as many as 800 sit across the United Kingdom, remnants of prehistoric people who ...

Archaeologists in Hungary have uncovered a 1,300-year-old warrior’s tomb containing one of only about 80 known Avar sabers, a ...

There were 22 gold objects, in addition to other impressive grave goods, buried with the deceased, indicating they were ...

"Some of our ancestors were very skilled observers." A team of international researchers say they've uncovered new data on ...

After theorizing on the fossilized bird’s cause of death, the paleontologists decided on the new species’ name: Chromeornis ...

Wisconsin Historical Society experts identified 16 dugout canoes in Lake Mendota, including the oldest recorded canoe from ...

Plant species mentioned in texts from the past 800 years hint the wooded grasslands of western India have been there since ...

The extinct rhinoceros, described in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, is the northernmost rhino known to have ever ...

Olive oil is the Swiss army knife of foodstuffs. It can dress salads, sauté vegetables, even grease squeaky hinges. And for ...

Earth's atmosphere might have contributed to the origin of life more than previously thought. In a study published in the ...