Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument in New Mexico is celebrating being included in TIME Magazine's "World's Greatest ...

In the high desert of north-central New Mexico, a 40-minute drive west of Santa Fe, a surreal landscape of eroded volcanic ...

Authorities are seeking the public's help in finding individuals who desecrated ancient, protected tribal rock carvings near ...

Ancient petroglyphs carved into volcanic rock outside Bishop in the eastern Sierra were recently damaged by vandals, and ...

Tenerife guarantees hikers a wide range of experiences. Here is a selection of some of its most memorable excursions, ideal ...

The Paiute-Shoshone Indians later chipped away at the red pumice stone, which exposed the lighter rock minerals underneath, according to the Bureau of Land Management. The carvings are considered ...

At Pompeii in Italy, archeologists have uncovered a sensational fresco depicting a mysterious cult of raving, intoxicated ...

For several years now, we've been following a tantalizing story indicating that the high heat of the ash cloud generated when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD was sufficiently hot to turn one of the ...

A rare sequence of heating and cooling triggered the chain of chemical reactions that turn organic material into glass.