#ancient

Nearly two millennia ago, the sky above the Bay of Naples turned to ash. Pliny the Younger, observing…

In the arid, sun-drenched landscape of southern Madagascar, a striking geological anomaly disrupts the dusty, reddish terrain. From…

In a sprawling, open-air warehouse in the humid heat of Darwin, Australia, thousands of unassuming cylindrical rock cores…

In a sprawling, open-air warehouse in Darwin, Australia, thousands of unassuming cylindrical rock cores sit tucked away in…

Between 2.5 and 2 billion years ago, Earth underwent a metamorphosis of planetary proportions. As oxygen began its…

For decades, geologists have operated under the assumption that the Earth’s early history was a static, largely isolated…

Nearly two millennia ago, the Roman polymath Pliny the Younger stood at a safe distance and watched in…

In a nondescript, open-air warehouse in tropical Darwin, Australia, thousands of dusty trays hold the key to one…

In a discovery that fundamentally shifts our understanding of planetary geology, researchers from the University of Oxford have…

For centuries, the painted tombs of Tarquinia, Italy, have stood as silent, subterranean witnesses to the enigmatic Etruscan…