The gypsum dunes of White Sands National Park in New Mexico's Tularosa Basin are adjacent to the site of a dry ancient lakebed where scientists have discovered human and animal trackways dating to ...

Assyrian cuneiform tablet from Kanesh(Courtesy of the Yale Babylonian Collection/Photography by Alberto Urcia/Text NBC 1907) Harvard University Assyriologist Gojko Barjamovic is currently ...

The peaks of the Andes rise over Chile’s Aysén region in Patagonia, the southern quarter of South America and one of the last places on Earth to be settled by humans.(Courtesy Raven Garvey) (Ken ...

Everyone who lives or vacations near the ocean has gone on an early morning beach walk to collect shells and, thinking they have found a perfectly intact specimen, bent over and plucked it from the ...

In the fifth century B.C., the Samnites, an Oscan-speaking people from the Appenine Mountains of central Italy, occupied the Campania region, including the town of Pompeii. Being mountaineers and ...