In an excerpt from his new book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean explores a weird and wild '90s experiment to replicate ancient ...

In a new paper in Science, experts from the University of Chicago describe steps that took place some 66 million years ago to ...

Two duck-billed dinosaur carcasses were preserved in a thin layer of clay for 66 million years. Now, they’ve helped ...

Many unexpected human artifacts have been preserved, for centuries, in vulture nests. This sandal woven from grasses and twigs, called an agobía, is somewhere between 727 and 771 years old, ...

Cliff-rappelling scientists uncovered a crossbow bolt, part of a slingshot and 25 shoes in ancient vulture nesting sites ...

Hand fossils unearthed in Kenya reveal that an extinct human relative called Paranthropus boisei had unexpected dexterity and ...

Archaeologists are sometimes faced with gruesome discoveries, which reflect brutality, violence, sacrifice, or painful surgical procedures carried out in ancient times. Here we feature ten such ...

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"The Butcher of Plainfield" and his grisly crimes are the subject of Netflix's new season of "Monster" Sean Neumann is a reporter at PEOPLE. He has been working at PEOPLE since 2019. His work has ...

Nearly two decades after the remains of a person known as "The Woman in the Well" were found, Canadian authorities announced the remains belonged to a woman named Alice Spence. Her listing in a 1916 ...

Canadian authorities have identified a person known as "The Woman in the Well" nearly two decades after her remains were found. The woman, Alice Spence, was born in September 1881 and had moved to ...