Laura Geggel

Earth scientists in China have found evidence of a subduction zone dating to 2.5 billion years ago.

Why were medieval women with egg-shaped skulls buried in Bavaria? A DNA analysis reveals their origins.

A woman in the Netherlands contracted an unusual bacterial infection that may have come from one of her pet cats, according to a new report of her case.

A Germanic aristocrat is just one of 80 newly discovered ancient burials.

Amateur freedivers found a giant stash of gold coins dating to the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

The Neanderthals and Denisovans — both relatives of modern humans — were roommates, literally, for thousands of years in a remote Siberian cave, two new studies find.

Historians found that a Book of the Dead segment from New Zealand matched another in Los Angeles.

Paleontologists in Chile have found the remains of an ankylosaur that represents a new dinosaur lineage.

How did the Maya, Aztec and other Mesoamerican cultures play the ballgame? And did they really sacrifice the game's players?

More than 500 years ago, the Aztecs created a "trophy tower" out of hundreds of human skulls.

Operation Reinhard, known as the single largest murder campaign during the Holocaust, was worse than historians imagined.

Archaeologists in Guatemala have uncovered ancient mural fragments that are the oldest evidence of the Maya calendar on record.

Miscarriages are common, but the majority of Americans still think they occur rarely, a new survey finds.

Earlier this year, a study claimed that Tyrannosaurus rex was actually three separate species. Now, a new study refutes that claim and shows that T. rex is just one species.

If you emptied it out, you could fill five soda bottles with it

More than 11,000 years ago, children in what is now New Mexico splashed in muddy puddles made from sloth footprints, new research shows.

An excavation at a Roman Empire-era amphitheater in Pergamon Turkey reveals that elites sat in 'box seats.'

Archaeologists discovered a Roman-era amphitheater from late antiquity on the banks of the Rhine River in Switzerland.

Up to 20,000 people likely cheered and jeered as they watched gladiator and wild animal fights in a newfound Roman-era arena in Turkey.