An interdisciplinary research project on the development of the earliest forms of agriculture shows that early farming ...

Jane Goodall, the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, has died at the age of 91, the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) ...

Some 12,000 years ago, groups of pioneering hunter-gatherers ventured into the harsh Arabian desert. They survived thanks to ...

Researchers used drone imagery to analyze the full scope of a massive, 3,000-year-old fortress in the Caucasus mountains.

Remarkable life-size rock carvings, depicting camels, gazelles, and other animals, have been discovered in the Saudi Arabian ...

The defeat of the Persians in 334 B.C. at that location provided a monumental turning point in the success of Alexander and ...

Many pre-Columbian cultures of South America crafted masks for the dead and fused them to their mummified remains in such a precise manner that the bodies seemed to be alive.

Now a leading archaeologist, Rostain was discouraged at first. “No one is interested in archaeology of the Amazon.” ...

Copper smelters once used iron oxide to refine copper, unintentionally advancing the path toward iron metallurgy. Research conducted at Cranfield University provides new insight into the shift from ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Researchers have discovered life-size rock carvings of camels, gazelles and other animals in the Saudi ...

When Genghis Khan died in 1227, he left behind a united Mongolia, a vast empire, and an unsolved mystery—his final resting ...

Archaeologists have recently made a remarkable discovery in South Africa: a 200-year-old rock painting that may depict a ...