Mesopotamians were using hybrids of domesticated donkeys and wild asses to pull their war wagons 4,500 years ago, scientists have found.

A telescope in Arizona modified to measure the true distance of galaxies has produced the largest three-dimensional map of the universe ever.

The heart from a genetically modified pig has been transplanted into a Maryland man in a last-ditch effort to save his life.

Archaeologists have unearthed the bones of a young man and a dog killed by an ancient tsunami along the Aegean coast.

Two spectacular horned helmets may have inspired the myth that more than 1,500 years later, Vikings wore bulls' horns on their helmets.

Scientists have just created the world's lightest form of magnesium — a never-before-seen isotope with just six neutrons in its atomic nuclei.

A Neolithic tomb in England holds the remains of five generations of family members descended from one man and four women, DNA analysis reveals.

The skeleton of a man killed by the eruption of the Vesuvius volcano almost 2000 years ago has been unearthed at Herculaneum.

Archaeologists in Norway have discovered the remains of a cluster of Norse longhouses, including one of the largest of these structures ever found.

Five rare "non-returning" boomerangs found in dry riverbed in South Australia were probably used hundreds of years ago to hunt waterbirds, according to a new study.

An amateur archaeologist in Switzerland has discovered an ornate dagger wielded by a Roman soldier 2,000 years ago.

A mysterious underground "bowling alley" structure beneath Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire is the remains of a medieval tannery where monks and lay brothers processed animal hides into leather.

Ocean scientists have located the wreck of the U.S. Revenue Cutter Bear — a ship that served at sea for at least 88 years and played a part in the famous capture of a Nazi spy ship.

The remains of a V2 rocket fired by Nazi Germany at London during World War II have been unearthed in a field in the southeast of England, where it crashed and exploded before reaching its target.

Ancient cut marks on mammoth bones unearthed on a remote island in the frozen extremes of Siberia are the northernmost evidence of Paleolithic humans ever found, according to archaeologists.

Volcanic eruption on La Palma is choking the air with toxic gases.

An ancient Hebrew document created more than 1,000 years ago and stashed away in Cairo may unlock a secret of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Two polished stone balls shaped about 5,500 years ago — linked to a mysterious practice almost unique to Neolithic Britain — have been discovered in an ancient Scottish tomb.

A wooden pole made from an oak tree trunk and carved into the shape of a pagan idol 1,600 years ago has been unearthed in a bog in Ireland.

Archaeologists in southwest Russia have unearthed a trove of medieval silver at a site where treasure was often hidden from an invading Mongol army in the 13th century.

The stone structure was part of a ceremonial landscape.

Smoke from massive wildfires in Russia's eastern Siberia region has reached the geographic North Pole "for the first time in recorded history," according to NASA.