A newly described fossil reveals that leeches are at least 200 million years older than scientists previously thought, and ...

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

Ancient Egyptian guards may have used a tiny cow bone with a hole drilled into it to keep royal tomb workers in order. The ...

When we picture the history of money, many imagine barter leading naturally to coins, then paper bills, then cards and ...

The engravings of life-size camels and donkeys on the side of a mountain were later found to have been created between 11,400 ...

Newly discovered prehistoric artwork suggests how a pioneering sect of desert nomads, unknown to history until now, carved ...

Mulberry paper, an ancient Uyghur handicraft dating back to the Tang Dynasty (618-907), was once widely used for printing ...

Late Cretaceous dinosaurs may have cut back vegetation, creating large floodplains. When the asteroid hit, those floodplains ...

Earth was not always the blue-green world we know today: early Earth's oxygen levels were about a million times lower than we ...

Wooden block printing is an ancient art form that allows you to create beautiful patterns on fabric and paper. The technique ...

Pasteli (Greek: παστέλι) the ancient Greek dessert, has very few ingredients, but it has a great deal of history behind it. A ...

This is because the new analysis of the craniums also puts the Denisovans as the most closely related extinct human species ...