Native American legends surround Penn’s Cave, including the tragic tale of a young Seneca brave named Malachi and his forbidden love for a French trader’s daughter named Nita-nee (from whom Mount ...

Hidden away in the northwestern corner of Illinois, where the landscape suddenly decides flat is boring, lies a cascading wonder that seems to have escaped from someone’s fantasy novel. Thunder Bay ...

Nine steps down a stone staircase in Egypt’s Aga Khan Mausoleum, archaeologists discovered a host of hieroglyphic ...

Quarries and pits fuel growth by providing the necessity of construction: Aggregate. That’s usually sand, gravel, clay, earth ...

Processed lime helped aid booming development across California after Gold Rush fever brought thousands to the state, Jaffke ...

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...

Filmmakers have long been enamored with the UNESCO World Heritage-listed limestone tufa cave houses of Matera, which have made the southern Italian hilltop town a magnet for culture and history buffs.

Over the past year, I have joined the rapidly increasing community taking up climbing: whether at indoor gyms or outdoor ...

CaveCreek4.jpg Penelope Donahue points out fossils in the limestone of the opening of Cave Creek Cave while on a June 8 hike in Santa Fe National Forest. The limestone, which is around 300 million ...

Welcome back to Joshua Tree National Park! In today’s video, I’m closing out my time in this beautiful desert by exploring ...

Now, the figurine has been shown to the public for the very first time, and it’s being called the discovery of the century. The figure dates to the Neolithic period, at least 6,000 years ago, ...

Dating back to the Neolithic era, the so-called Venus of Kolobrzeg is the first artifact of its kind unearthed in the ...