Archaeologists revealed how America's earliest civilization survived a deadly climate shift 4,200 years ago by relocating and ...

Archaeologists in Peru uncovered a 37-meter-long cat geoglyph on a Nazca hillside, dating to around 200 BCE, centuries before ...

Native people have been occupying Arizona for thousands of years, but it wasn't until 1877 that Arizona's first city was ...

Alcohol has been around for thousands of years. However, the style of fermentation has changed throughout the ages. These are the oldest alcohols in human history.

Comedian and sex-worker rights advocate Kaytlin Bailey brings "The Oldest Profession" to Kingston. A sharp, funny, history-driven look at sex work and civil liberties.

Climate change is not just a modern dilemma; it’s a force that has reshaped the trajectory of human history time and again.

After the collapse of the Chalcolithic culture around 3500 BCE, people in Jordan’s Murayghat transformed their way of life, shifting from domestic settlements to ritual landscapes filled with dolmens, ...

As archaeologists slowly excavate this ancient statue from the earth, they are, in a sense, awakening a witness to humanity's earliest attempts to comprehend the cosmos and to communicate with the ...

DNA shines a light back into the past, showing us things that fossils can't. But how far back can that light extend? Some of the oldest DNA sequences come from mastodon and polar bear fossils about 50 ...

The extinct animal's face structure could help explain how vertebrates, including ourselves, evolved our distinctive look.

The largest and oldest crater on the moon did not form as we initially suspected, a new study suggests. The findings hint that a specific region of the lunar surface could be more scientifically ...