A likely source for the fighting giants is Orlando Furioso, a 1532 epic poem by Ludovico Ariosto, in which the protagonist, driven mad by unrequited love, tears a woodsman in two.

Researchers found human and animal remains inside, suggesting complex funerary rituals of an unknown Amazonian culture.

Records, court filings and emails reveal how federal review of Enbridge's Great Lakes tunnel project leaves tribal officials ...

When a massive tree toppled in the floodplains of Fonte Boa, a region in the Brazilian Amazon, local fishermen noticed ...

Given Stonehenge's profound impact on many people's imaginations, it's not surprising that replicas exist elsewhere, varying ...

A giant plastic blue clothespin stands upright under a hydraulic press, ready to be crushed. The tension between its simple ...

Excavations of the northern defensive ditches of Magna Fort have revealed 32 shoes buried in the “semi-anaerobic low oxygen deposits,” according to a July 2 news release from the Vindolanda Charitable ...

From fresh berries to honey, learn which foods to buy in bulk—and which will waste your money, space, and possibly sanity.

Workers digging at Manhattan’s World Trade Center site 15 years ago made an improbable discovery: sodden timbers from a boat ...

A groundbreaking study of 7,000-year-old exposed coral reef fossils reveals how human fishing has transformed Caribbean reef ...

Dr. Rick Knecht, working with local Native corporation Qanirtuuq, Inc., has helped accumulate the world’s largest collection ...