Researchers uncovered rare azurite traces on a Final Paleolithic artifact, overturning assumptions that early Europeans used ...

Scientists suggest that declining rainfall and competition with modern humans led to the extinction of Homo floresiensis, an archaic hominid species, around 50,000 years ago.

A digital atlas of ancient Rome’s highways and byways reveals a road network that was more extensive than thought.

Researchers have found that domestic cats “did not spread to Europe with Neolithic farmers [in West Asia]” as earlier ...

Mark Matney, a planetary scientist, pointed to an object recorded by the Chinese from 5BC - a bright comet that was visible ...

Calendar' rock carvings from Ancestral Pueblo discovered. The carvings were found at a site called Castle Rock Pueblo on the Mesa Verde plateau straddling the Colorado-Utah border. Early Native ...

A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human evolution from her spot on the family tree.

Learn more about oil residue left over on ancient "dirty dishes" and what they can tell us about ancient olive oil production ...

Everyone at the party was praising love, calling it beautiful and benevolent. Diotima says this cannot be the case. Love is ...

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

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

Learn more about the Pyramids of Giza, who they were built for, and the possible methods used to complete them.