A team of researchers from Sivas Cumhuriyet University in Turkey is investigating a long-standing claim that a boat-shaped geological formation in the country's east contains the remains of Noah's Ark.

After using a technique called molecular clock analysis, researchers have proposed that the origin of animals could be 200 million years earlier than thought. The study was published Friday (Oct. 2) in the journal Science Advances.

Court officials and craftspeople serving early Egyptian kings may have been sacrificed when their ruler died, according to research that found fractures in several ancient skulls. The research was published in the journal Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology.

Deep in Peru's Acarí Valley lie the ruins of Tambo Viejo, an Inka provincial center where excavations have uncovered tasseled sacrificial llamas and brightly adorned guinea pigs. But save for a few seeds and some stored leaves, evidence of how...