Using aerial pictures of crop markings, scientists are painting a first detailed picture of the buried Roman city of Altinum, which some scholars think helped give rise to nearby Venice.
Once upon a time in England, swan was a delicacy, prompting expeditions to "brand" wild, unclaimed fowl as royal property. The queen's swan marker continues the tradition today, but the aim is protection not consumption. Video.
From the limestone caves to the world's tallest waterfall—"the eyes of the planet" are on the finalists from which the seven natural wonders of the world will be chosen.
Millions may have experienced the Apollo 11 moon landing on TV—and now, 40 years later, online. But a few facts aren't exactly common knowledge, including ...
New images from NASA spacecraft show the Apollo landing sites in sharp detail. Compare photographs of moon-landing bases taken before and after the astronauts landed on the moon.
As records have resurfaced, enthusiasts working from an abandoned McDonald's have begun restoring famous images of the moon made by the 1960s Lunar Orbiter spacecraft in unprecedented detail.
Many of the 33 mummies uncovered near Chiclayo, Peru, were those of girls—a rarity, experts say. Their throats slit, the girls were probably killed in a bid for agricultural fertility. Video.
A richly decorated canine skeleton and unbroken plaster seals add to clues that a site at the heart of Mexico City could be the only known—and unlooted—tomb of an Aztec king.
Although the ethnic minority known as the Uygurs have autonomy in their homeland in western China, clashes with the country's Han majority are frequent. Find out more about the culture embroiled in the recent riots with exclusive pictures of life among the Uygurs.
Special fog-catching nets that can pull hundreds of gallons a day out of the air are helping conservationists in Peru bring water to rain-starved communities.
A bull gets chased into the sea in Spain, India's homosexuals celebrate, and a Washington, D.C., panda gets a "veggie-sicle" birthday cake in this week's best news photos.
About two thousand people took to the streets of Pamplona for the first of eight bull runs, finishing the course in a quick two-and-a-half minutes.Video.
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