Archaeologists in Turkey have just uncovered a shopping list,one that’s 3,500 years old. The discovery, made at the ancient ...

New archaeological evidence is helping rewrite old myths about disabled people in the ancient world.

Ancient DNA from southern Africa is rewriting the story of our species, revealing that some early humans in this region lived ...

Imagine going back thousands of years and showing off the cool astronomical functions of your smartphone. It can tell the date and time with incredible accuracy. It can pinpoint your location. It can ...

This image provided by William Usaquen and Andrea Casas-Vargas shows the high plains in Bogota, Colombia where a new group of humans lived 6,000 years ago. (William Usaquen, Andrea Casas-Vargas via AP ...

Ancient Maya kings may have already told us how to tackle our water crisis, a new study has found. The Maya civilization dates back almost 4,000 years and spanned what is now Belize, Guatemala, ...

Hunter-gatherers at Poverty Point may have built its massive earthworks not under the command of chiefs, but as part of a vast, temporary gathering of egalitarian communities seeking spiritual harmony ...

When archaeologists study how ancient civilizations traveled, they can use evidence like wagons and stables and roads to understand how goods and people moved on land. But when they want to learn ...

"Ancient Food and Flavor" at the Penn Museum features outdoor raised beds with plantings of the types of foods that would have been in ancient Peru, Switzerland, and Jordan. (Peter Crimmins/WHYY) ...

An ancient "arcade" of game boards carved into rock has been discovered by an archaeologist and paleoanthropologist from Yale University in Kenya. The researcher, Veronica Waweru, noticed rows of ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have identified a new pod of ancient hunter-gatherers who lived near the land bridge between North America and South America about 6,000 years ago. Researchers are still ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have identified a ...