Hidden beneath an ancient temple in Assur, Iraq, archaeologists have discovered key evidence of the Cult of Ishtar's origins.

Due to a weird quirk of geology, New Mexico's Bandera Volcano Ice Cave never warms above 31 degrees Fahrenheit, even when ...

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Salt is deeply encrusted onto the history of Wieliczka. Around 13.5 million years ago, seawater flooded this basin at the feet of the Carpathian Mountains in Central Europe. Then, slowly but surely, ...

Dean's Blue Hole on Long Island is nature's deepest secret.

Lurking among them is a “giant” virus, a genetic behemoth that blurs the line between the living and the inanimate. When this ...

In one of the most baffling discoveries of the last decade, scientists have found a clue in a cave to how life might survive ...

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The investigative minds at How to Survive examine why the world’s deepest cave proved fatal, including key cave hazards.

Stretching beneath the icy waters of northern Japan, this tunnel stands as one of the most ambitious engineering projects ...

International scientists have discovered a stencil of a hand in Indonesia that dates back nearly 68,000 years, making it the oldest known cave artwork ever discovered, per a study published Wednesday ...

The world’s oldest known example of cave art, dating back at least 67,800 years, has been discovered by researchers studying handprints in Indonesia. The find, along with others recently made in the ...