Archaeologists have identified five ancient shipwrecks in the waters surrounding Levitha, a small and sparsely inhabited Greek island in the eastern Aegean. The wrecks, whose cargoes include amphorae ...

For more than a century, scientists have pieced together the story of how humans first reached North America through ancient ...

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A new study led by researchers at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory offers the clearest evidence yet that a centuries-long drought transformed life on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) beginning around the ...

Part of an undersea plateau about 750 miles off the coast of Brazil was once a tropical island above the ocean. This submerged island is rich in ferromanganese crusts, which contain valuable elements ...

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A new study led by James Diggle argues that Homer’s Ithaca was not a separate island, but a region on Cephalonia linked to ...

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At the very northern tip of Croatia’s bizarre, moon-like island of Pag, near the ancient village of Lun, lies one of the Mediterranean’s most extraordinary natural treasures, the Lun olive groves.