Prehistoric trees like Ginkgo and monkey-puzzles still have close relatives that go back at least to the time of the ...

New evidence is emerging in Kenya of early humans crafting stone tools for nearly 300,000 years during the Pliocene, despite ...

Science isn’t just about textbooks and laboratories—it’s an engaging journey of discovery that can lead you to the farthest ...

When rolled on a moist clay tablet, these engravings left low-relief markings, signifying that the object's owner authorized ...

A recent study is changing the understanding of how urbanization developed in ancient Mesopotamia. According to the analysis, the emergence of the Sumerian civilization was not only the result of ...

A recently published study in PLOS ONE is reshaping scientific understanding of the rise of urban civilization in ancient ...

India has discovered some great things without which our lives wouldn’t have been so easy. From Zero to plastic surgery, ...

The idea scientists might be able to 'rewire' our memory is one that has long fascinated everyone from philosophers to movie ...

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In a 1970 National Geographic feature, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey—son of Louis and Mary Leakey—recounted his discovery of a nearly complete Australopithecus boisei skull (now Paranthropus ...

Excavations in the ancient Roman city Gabii have uncovered a water basin that could predate much of Roman monumental architecture. Experts believe the water basin could sit alongside another ...