Cow herders in northwest Turkey became the world's first dairy producers some 8,500 years ago, up to 2,000 years earlier than previously thought, a new discovery of ancient milk containers shows.
The specimens—some of which contain organic tissue—help paint a picture of a temperate Antarctica where lakes were fringed with trees and swarmed with blackflies.
The 2,100-year-old Antikythera mechanism not only predicted lunar and solar eclipses, it also tracked the cycle of ancient athletic contests, a new study shows.
A seaside stone that had been decorating a home owner's ornamental pond for 15 years might actually be an 80-million-year-old fossilized fish head, experts say.
The Chinese have chronicled solar eclipses for more than four millennia, with myths, politics, and possibly a fear of beheading driving the earliest innovations in prediction techniques.
Hundreds of fossils of crustacean-like animals found recently in Antarctica suggest that 14 million years ago, the warmer continent was booming with life, a new study says.
The hippodrome—where chariots and horses raced in the most prestigious events of the ancient Olympics—has been located in Greece with geomagnetic technology, researchers believe.
At the Great Pyramid in Giza, Egypt, visitors could see, for the first time, an underground ship apparently intended to carry a pharaoh into the afterlife.
Metal plates covered the eyes and mouth of the mummy, which was found with mysterious balls and other "strange things we never expected," as one researcher said.
Disemboweled and decorated with scarlet paint and metal eye plates, the centuries-old man was found with slingshots, a figurine of himself, and other artifacts. A National Geographic News exclusive.
His eyes covered with metal plates, a thousand-year-old elite mummy has been found surrounded by unfamiliar artifacts—shedding light on a mysterious culture.
