Low airspace river caves are already among the most dangerous places to explore. When a thunderstorm begins overhead, water levels can rise without warning, turning tight passages into traps. With ...

The Great Pyramid of Giza might get all the headlines, but it wasn't humanity’s first monumental effort. Long before pharaohs were stacking limestone in Egypt, people across the world were carving ...

We all know the “Gringo Trail.” You land in Lima, go to Cusco, take the selfie at Machu Picchu, fly to Rio for a caipirinha, ...

For “Mammoth,” a new show at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, he takes up contentious issues of race and climate change ...

In a BBC archive clip, archaeologist Howard Carter describes the moment on 12 February 1924 when he and his team became the first people in 3,300 years to meet the Egyptian boy king.

Postojna Cave is famous for its five-metre-tall bright-white stalagmite called Brilliant. Postojna Cave, and the surrounding cave system, is also famous for the unusual number of species adapted to ...