B esides being the world’s financial capital, New York City is also home to historic treasures. Researchers recently ...

Most ancient known trees on Earth. Credit: Evelyn Simak / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 2.0 When the Great Pyramid of Giza was being constructed and Julius Caesar was rising to power, there existed ...

To account for the numerous gaps in the fossil record, they treated the parts of the world where fossils have not been ...

The only certainty is that Currey did have permission to cut down what was discovered to be the oldest tree on record. Now known as Prometheus, the tree was found to be nearly 5,000 years old.

Now known as Prometheus, the tree was found to be nearly 5,000 years old. That means Prometheus came into existence around the time humans were exiting the Stone Age and beginning to work with bronze.