The genetic link between bones discovered thousands of miles away from each other suggests a prehistoric migration route.

New research shows that the rise of Sumer was deeply tied to the tidal and sedimentary dynamics of ancient Mesopotamia. Early ...

Hygieia was a prominent figure in both ancient Greek and Roman mythology—she was the daughter of Asclepius, the god of ...

For decades, Paranthropus robustus has intrigued scientists as a powerful, big-jawed cousin of early humans. Now, thanks to ...

The 1-inch pottery fragment, which is part of a seal that was used to authenticate official documents, was reportedly found ...

The finding may allow archaeologists to determine whether a woman was pregnant or had recently given birth at the time of her ...

Long before there were maps or names for continents, a handful of people stood at the edge of the world. Picture them on a ...

Some of the recent advances in the quest to catch a whiff of history are featured in the new book Scents of Arabia: ...

An explorer and a glaciologist have embarked on a three-month mission to cross part of Antarctica on kite skis in search of ice that is 130,000 years old.

Archaeologists recently uncovered an ancient wine production center near a castle in Turkey — and it’s believed to date back ...

The Mughals did not invent these ideas; they inherited them from a civilisation that had already mastered the dialogue ...

From looping hallways to echoing stairwells, eerie architecture taps into ancient survival instincts—and exposes how our ...