After an earthquake damaged a city hall in Croatia, renovation work on the building’s basement unearthed the ruins of an ancient Roman theater. Photo from Croatia’s Ministry of Culture and ...

Notably, it’s home to well-preserved fossils of tusked animals known as dicynodonts. These fossils are frequently found eroding out of the ground, making them accessible to ancient people. In fact, as ...

This wasn’t always the case, however, and a new analysis from deep inside an ancient cave shows the birds may once have been plentiful — and used in ritualistic feasts. The Grotte des Pigeons ...

Photo by the National Institute of Anthropology and History Archaeologists in Mexico have discovered ancient Mayan pottery in a cave system a little more than 10 miles away from downtown Playa de ...