Alternative and offbeat historic sites within driving distance of Albany, highlighting the ancient, the supernatural and the entertaining.

Tiny iron-rich stones called ooids reveal surprising insights into Earth’s early oceans. New research shows dissolved organic carbon levels were 90–99% lower than expected, challenging existing ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - After a long wait, the government of the Netherlands has finally returned theDubois collection, including the fossil of Homo erectus (formerly known as Pithecanthropus erectus) to ...

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Founded as Florida’s oldest inland settlement, Micanopy wears its history lightly – not as a museum piece behind velvet ropes, but as a living, breathing community that happens to be surrounded by ...

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On Sept. 27, 1822, French philologist Jean-François Champollion announced that he had deciphered ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, using the Rosetta stone. This ushered in a new craze for Egyptology and ...

This now-extinct tongue was probably spoken somewhere in Eurasia as many as 8,000 years ago. But how do we know Proto-Indo-European must have existed?

When we picture the history of money, many imagine barter leading naturally to coins, then paper bills, then cards and digital balances. But new research led by University at Albany Anthropology ...

In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China's Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilization that it was hard to gauge its significance. A new analysis now indicates that ...

In a ground-breaking discovery nestled in the mountains of the Caucasus, archaeologists have unearthed a partial jawbone of Homo erectus in Georgia, which ...

The seat is across from the entrance to the Villa of the Mysteries, a large property full of beautiful frescoes located just outside the ancient city's walls ...