Linguists and archaeologists have long argued about which group of ancient people spoke the original Indo-European language. A new study in the journal Nature throws a new theory into the fray.

(Image credit: Mark Witton) Scientists in Antarctica have discovered what may be the oldest modern bird ever found. The 69 million-year-old fossil could finally put a longstanding debate about the ...

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And now it carries a handsome cash prize: $1 million for anyone who can decipher the script of the ancient Indus Valley ... announcing the $1 million prize. Image M.K. Stalin, the chief minister ...

Rivers may have operated on a global scale around 3.5 billion years ago. The new find comes courtesy of ancient rocks in China and South Africa. A change in rock chemistry around that time ...

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Ancient DNA analyses bring to life the 11,000-year intertwined genomic history of sheep and humans by Trinity College Dublin Vessel supported by two rams, 2600 to 2500 BCE, object number 1989.281.3.

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For more than a century, the ancient Indus script has mystified researchers. Left behind by the Indus Valley civilization, which emerged more than five millennia ago in present-day India and ...