A weakening of Earth’s magnetic field known as the Laschamps event would have increased the threat of solar radiation, ...

In a nutshell Stone Age humans mastered fire technology during Earth’s harshest climate period 23,000 years ago, creating ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously ...

Between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago, the area was unrecognizable, transformed into a lush savannah by an unusually wet interval called the African Humid Period ... modern humans and 117 ancient ...

But what if many of the ideas we call “modern” were already in use thousands of years ago? Ancient civilizations around the world had clever inventions that were so ahead of their time that ...

DNA from two mummies at Takarkori links them to 15,000-year-old Taforalt hunter-gatherers, challenging the idea of the Green Sahara as a migration corridor.

Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious ... Despite finding the altar in Tikal, a ruined Mayan city situated in modern Guatemala, archaeologists believe it ...

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods ...

The vibrant period of Ancient Greek civilization from 1200 BCE to 323 BCE gave us exceptional achievements that we continue to benefit from today. It was a long stretch of time that spanned from ...

but the king's identity remains a mystery due to damage caused by ancient tomb robbers. The tomb is believed to be from Egypt's Second Intermediate Period, when the Hyksos ruled northern Egypt and ...

They estimate the specimens, collected from the Kachin region in northern Myanmar, date to 98.79 million years ago during the mid-Cretaceous period ... bethylid wasps are modern-day parasitoids ...

Most modern structures are built to last 50 years or so, but ingenious ancient engineering has kept this watery city afloat for more than 1,600 years – using only wood. As any local knows ...