The majority of the temple dates to the 7th century BC, but archaeologists discovered portions of the site that are even ...

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Astronomers are a step closer to cracking one of the secrets of dark energy—the mysterious force believed to be causing the universe's accelerated expansion. Dark energy makes up approximately 68% of ...

Sixteen years ago a group of anthropologists discovered 3.4-million-year-old fossilized foot bones in Ethiopia. While they suspected the foot belonged to an ancient human that likely lived alongside ...

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Is it a child’s toy? A weapon? Or just something that looked cool on an ancient Roman bookcase? These small hollow objects (one is pictured above), made of copper alloy with 12 flat pentagonal faces, ...

A tourist takes a selfie at the Tianfu Agricultural Expo Park in Chengdu, Sichuan province, on March 12. AN YUAN/CHINA NEWS SERVICE CHENGDU — In the heartland of China, near a 4,500-year-old farmland, ...