Continuous landmasses, now submerged, may have made it possible for early humans to cross between present-day Turkey and ...

The theory was that Anatolia, the region in which Ayvalık is situated, and Europe were linked during the last Ice Age, offering early humans a path to cross over via southward island-hopping routes.

From Indigenous roots to colonial imprints, the origins of country names tell powerful stories of resilience and change ...

Lund University archaeologists have revealed details of late medieval artillery from the wreck of the royal Danish-Norwegian flagship, Gribshunden. The shipwreck is the only known example of its kind ...

For centuries, Easter Island’s famous moai statues have stood guard over the remote volcanic island in the South Pacific, withstanding sun, wind, rain, lichen and even fire. But in the coming decades, ...

Scientists say a species of bacteria rewrites the history of when an infectious and potentially deadly disease first arrived in the Americas. And it was long before the arrival of European explorers.

One of the studies, led by Dr. Aleksandra Sokołowska of Brown University and Imperial College London, has identified 258 ...

Erling Kagge, who himself was one of the first to reach the pole unassisted, details the personal motivations and public ...

Sweden's indigenous Sami fear they will lose their livelihood and culture if plans go ahead to mine a large rare earths ...

One of the earliest and most well-traveled Native American Indian trails into Egremont meandered east from what is now ...