It is highly prone to earthquakes due to its location on the boundary of the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates.

Earthquakes are relatively common in Myanmar, where six strong quakes of 7.0 magnitude or more struck between 1930 and 1956 ...

Aerial view of the finds, fragments of the walls and the north gate of the city of Selinunte ... incorporating the iconic element of the selinon leaf, depicted on an ancient coin from the Archaic ...

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Hundreds of ancient chariot pieces and ceremonial weapons were found buried in Yorkshire it's challenging everything we know ...

Contrary to what you may intuit, the Earth's gravity isn't uniform, and there's one place where it's much weaker than anyone ...

Follow live updates after a A huge 7.7 magnitude earthquake has rocked Myanmar causing homes to shake and collapse in neighbouring Thailand.

A small village in rural North Yorkshire has become the site of one of the largest and most important Iron Age finds in the UK. Experts have discovered more than 800 items buried in Melsonby ...

The tremors left buildings, bridges, and roads wrecked in the epicenter, Mandalay, an ancient city of about 1.5 million people, residents and local media said. Reuters cited an unnamed resident as ...

On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks: Brief Narrative of Three Expeditions in Innermost Asia and North-Western China. By Sir Aurel Stein. Pp. xxiv + 342 + 102 plates. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd ...

When you need a break from the hustle and bustle of Canada's biggest city, you can hop on a quick, 15-minute ferry ride to the Toronto Islands. Amidst the towering skyscrapers of the city's ...

Cave di Cusa e Pantelleria Archaeologists have uncovered new sections of the ancient Greek city walls of Selinunte (Greek: Σελῑνοῦς), a historic Greek settlement in southwestern Sicily, Italy. Among ...