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

About 50,000 years ago, humanity lost one of its last surviving hominin cousins, Homo floresiensis (also known as "the hobbit ...

A reduction in rainfall may have played a sizable role in the extinction of Homo floresiensis, the archaic human species ...

Scientists in Kyoto found that fresh grapes rarely host the yeast needed for wine fermentation, but raisins do. They soaked ...

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

Archaeologists discovered 16 ancient dugout canoes in Lake Mendota, Wisconsin, with the oldest dating back 5,200 years. The ...

Archaeologists in Wisconsin have unveiled a vessel-based, e-bike-like system dating back thousands of years at a local lake.

The ancient world was probably filled with magicians using science only a few understood, but the works of one man have ...

"Some of our ancestors were very skilled observers." A team of international researchers say they've uncovered new data on ...