Aylwyn Scally, a researcher in human evolutionary genetics at the University of Cambridge, discusses an ancient skull that ...

On Sept. 27, 1822, French philologist Jean-François Champollion announced that he had deciphered ancient Egyptian ...

This video explores how Venice, unlike other Italian cities, was shaped by its deep ties to Byzantium. From its early days as a refuge after the fall of Rome to its role in the Fourth Crusade and the ...

A new study suggests a habitable past and signs of ancient microbial processes on Mars. Led by NASA and featuring key analysis from Imperial College London, the work has uncovered a range of minerals ...

Recently, more and more foreign authors have been turning to ancient Greece to get inspiration for their novels.

A few dozen enthusiasts of ancient hunting tools participated in the Northeast Open Atlatl Championship in Addison, Vermont ...

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, according to ...

Ancient Greek physicians, such as Hippocrates, shaped the medical understanding of baldness and influenced modern treatments.

In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China's Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilization that ...

This now-extinct tongue was probably spoken somewhere in Eurasia as many as 8,000 years ago. But how do we know ...

California's Sierra Nevada glaciers have remained intact for at least 10,000 years. New research shows they will vanish ...

Researchers have virtually reconstructed a crushed and distorted 1 million-year-old human skull discovered in China. The newly restored cranium may have belonged to a relative of the mysterious ...