Archaeologist Greer Jarrett spent three years piloting a small sailboat along the coast of Norway to understand Viking trade routes.

Idealism, a hunger for power and a wish to prosper have driven some of the earliest efforts to build a world order.

New fossil study shows teeth evolved from sensitive armor in ancient fish—solving a 500-million-year-old mystery.

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that four people, including a child, in Pompeii used furniture to block a bedroom door ...

Archaeologists have discovered five small Bronze Age lead artifacts shaped like boats at the ancient site of Hala Sultan Tekke in Cyprus, offering rare insight into early fishing practices in the ...

Scientists have unearthed the body of a 4,500-year-old woman in Peru. What’s surprising is that they found not just her bones ...

This 375-million-year-old fish, the closest known relative of the ancestors of limbed animals such as humans, likely evolved the foundation for rear legs even before the move to land, researchers say.

An underwater species that was once believed to have gone extinct some 70 million years ago was recently spotted in what became a rare photoshoot for the fish. Researchers found the coelacanth ...

and when looking at the environmentally friendly pole-and-line fishing that Maldivians have been practicing since ancient times, such fishing is still practiced most extensively in the Maldives today.