Caves

Researchers think the morbid practice originated with pagan people who settled in the region after the Romans drove out the Jews.

The discovery of a skull and shin bone fragment in a cave in Laos pushes back the earliest known date of Homo sapiens in Southeast Asia.

These "greedy" eels likely retreated into the gloomy depths of underwater caves in search of tasty crustaceans and are adapting to the darkness by going blind, one eye at a time.

Stone Age dots, lines and Y-shaped marks might represent a type of proto-writing created by hunter-gatherers who lived in Europe at least 20,000 years ago.

Construction workers in Israel unexpectedly broke into a 3,300-year-old cave that looks like an "Indiana Jones film set."

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.

Cavers have successfully navigated Australia's deepest cave and named it the "Delta Variant" after COVID-19.

While exploring an old mine in northwestern England, a group of cavers stumbled upon 200-year-old personal items and equipment left by 19th-century cobalt miners.

A team of Chinese scientists has discovered a giant new sinkhole with a forest at its bottom.

Using a 3D scanning process known as photogrammetry, archeologists have uncovered five previously unknown giant cave paintings.