THE intricate tattoos of a 2,500-year-old Siberian “ice mummy” have finally been revealed through high-tech imaging. The ...

An international team of archaeologists has used high-resolution digital imaging techniques to examine tattoos on a more than ...

New imaging technology has allowed scientists to decipher the tattoos of an Iron Age mummy—and study them like never before.

East Antarctica’s tectonic plate probably broke off of the supercontinent about 80 million years ago, with today’s ice sheet forming 34 million years ago. Today, the researchers write, the flat ...

The ice above the ancient landscape measures about 2.2km to 3km thick, according to study co-leader Neil Ross, a professor of polar science and environmental geophysics at Newcastle University in ...

Using satellite data and ice-penetrating radar, scientists revealed that this ancient world, now sealed under ice, once featured rivers, forests, and possibly even palm trees.

For much of the planet’s recent geological history, ice ages came and went every 41,000 years. Then, during a period ...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Archaeologists exploring the word's biggest flooded cave in Mexico have discovered ancient human remains at least 9,000 years old and the bones of animals who roamed the earth ...

Researchers found ancient river-carved plains beneath East Antarctica that may help slow ice loss and improve sea-level rise predictions.

A vast ancient landscape, untouched for more than 34 million years, has been discovered buried beneath more than a mile of ice in East Antarctica. The hidden terrain lies in a remote region known ...

The €700,000 (S$1 million) mission, partly funded by the Italian research ministry, follows a series of earlier ice core extractions by the foundation, including operations in the Alps and the ...