On a small, lonely island in the Pacific, hundreds of stone faces stare toward the horizon. These are the Moai of Easter Island – towering statues carved between about 1250 and 1500 AD by the island’s ...

Researchers have confirmed the first known example of cleft lip and palate in an ancient Andean trophy head from southern Peru, offering unprecedented insights into how these early societies viewed ...

For most people, the image that comes to mind at the mention of archaeology is ancient tombs or dinosaur fossils, not cutting ...

Sixteen of the mysterious geoglyphs known as the Nazca Lines depict birds—more than any other type of plant or animal. A team of researchers from Japan recently set out to determine which bird species ...

The setback appears to be among the largest recalls in Airbus's 55-year history and comes weeks after the A320 overtook the ...

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines social media as: “forms of electronic communication (such as websites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to ...