In this extract from the documentary Persians: A History of Iran, we look at the Ziggurat of Chogha Zanbil - a man-made mountain palace created 3,000 years ago by the Elamites in Iran. Watch the ...

About 66 million years ago, just before the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs, a fish chewed up and spit out some sea creatures. Unbeknownst to that fish, its rejected meal was preserved in ...

The African continent is rich with fossils documenting the earliest phases of human evolution, yet fossilized remains dating from 2 to 3 million years ago have been hard to find. UNLV anthropologist ...

as Department of Health and Human Services secretary would be hazardous ... However, by 1961 more than half the U.S. population was fully vaccinated against polio, and by 1965, only 61 new cases ...

If that’s familiar to Sixers fans of a certain age, perhaps it’s the echoes of 12 years ago. Through a process ... would ante up $10 million to fund an overseer of Crozer Health for 30 days ...

The number of Black people living in the United States reached a new high of 48.3 million in ... the Black population declined within the District of Columbia, it grew by 3% in Washington’s larger ...

The ongoing saga of a 12 million baht lottery win involving a female food vendor in That Phanom district, Nakhon Phanom province, has taken a new turn. The lottery, drawn on January 17, reportedly won ...

The sea may have been refilled by a gigantic "megaflood" some 5.33 million years ago, according to a new paper in the journal Communications Earth & Environment. The so-called Zanclean Megaflood ...

If you fall into the negative, things don't work. You get pension benefits after 12 years... so that was my first goal. Now I can see myself staying for my whole career - the army is a big place ...

The result marks the oldest proof of human activity in Europe ... dating to approximately 1.77–1.8 million years ago, according to the study. However, there is evidence of earlier transient ...

“This method opens up exciting possibilities for understanding human evolution ... which spanned between 3.3 million and 3.7 million years ago. This conclusion comes despite some evidence ...

Around 45 million years ago, a 4.6 foot-tall (1.40 meters) flightless bird called Diatryma roamed the Geiseltal region in southern Saxony-Anhalt. An international team of researchers led by the ...