Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged in Ethiopia some 2.8 million ...

The earliest recorded and enduring examples of these guidelines date back to the Spring and Autumn Period ... how this ancient wisdom continues to shape China's modern governance.

Secrets of China's ancient history have been uncovered through a new 2,000-year-old discovery made by archaeologists in the ...

The age of the lines and how they were formed still needs to be verified, but there is a chance this may be one of the oldest ...

The Ulpian Library, a great library in the center of Rome, was founded by Emperor Trajan, who ruled around the turn of the second century C.E. Referenced often by ancient authors, it could have ...

For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who shaped history and created the world’s largest language family ...

As a scholar of libraries in the Greek and Roman world, I was struck by the similarities between presidential and ancient ...

erectus — a small-brained predecessor to species including modern humans and Neanderthals — replaced H. habilis in the region, somewhere between 1.8 and 1.5 million years ago. The team ...

The tomb of Pharaoh Thutmose II is the first royal crypt discovered in recent years, and scientists have new powerful tools to analyze it.

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.