The operation saw nine people placed in pre-trial detention and 14 under house arrest in Sicily alone. Charges levied against ...

Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence yet of fire technology — and it was created by Neanderthals in England more ...

You think you know Stonehenge. The iconic rock towers standing against a green field and a gray English sky are one of the ...

The oldest evidence for human ancestors using fire, dating back to between 1 million and 1.5 million years ago, comes from a ...

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 ...

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

Researchers say they’ve uncovered new evidence in present-day England that could reshape our understanding of human evolution ...

An isolated burial in Sudan has revealed the first evidence of an unknown funeral ritual that took place nearly 4,000 years ago in a little-known African kingdom, a new study finds. In the grave, ...

Archaeologists say they have found the oldest known instance of fire setting, a key moment in human evolution.

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

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From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year ...