A study says the Ain Samiya goblet, found in 1970, depicts a moment of cosmic creation, challenging previous scholarly ...

A group of scientists are studying the Cyclades, an island group in Greece's Aegean Sea, looking for signs of early human ...

Archaeologists in Hungary have uncovered a 1,300-year-old warrior’s tomb containing one of only about 80 known Avar sabers, a ...

Clues from a digital reconstruction of a lavish ancient home are changing how researchers understand Pompeii’s elite.

As far as kitchen staples, you don’t really get much better than olive oil. It can do it all—jazz up a salad, sauté ...

Cornwall has several stone circles, and as many as 800 sit across the United Kingdom, remnants of prehistoric people who ...

A new study revisits ancient Chinese records to explore whether a comet could explain the Star of Bethlehem described in ...

A study reveals olive oil degrades in Mediterranean pots faster than expected, reshaping views of ancient trade and household ...

What can today's scientists learn about astronomical phenomena from ancient texts?

Plant species mentioned in texts from the past 800 years hint the wooded grasslands of western India have been there since ...

Ancient Mars once teemed with flowing rivers, forming vast drainage systems. A new study has mapped these large basins, ...

Earth's atmosphere might have contributed to the origin of life more than previously thought. In a study published in the ...