Oysters and escargot are recognized as luxury foods around the world—but they were once valued by the lower classes as cheap ...

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.

Archaeologists uncover 5,000-year-old fishing tools along Iran’s Makran coast. But development may soon destroy the site.

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 ...

It was in the dry season, so the river was not quite 18 kilometers wide, but it had these huge sandbars that we'd have to walk across to reach some water on which we jumped onto this boat, this ...

While one ancient type of mammal has survived into the present day, it is mostly reptiles, fish, and arthropods that have remained largely unchanged. The environments into which they emerged have ...

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 ...