There's still a lot left to learn when it comes to ancient history, and scientists are still finding locations long since ...

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 ...

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 ...

Well, a team of scientists unearthed ancient footprints that offer insight ... from 50 million years ago is still prevalent today in modern shorebirds,” Bennett said in a news release on ...

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

They carry centuries of storytelling in their dough. From ancient gods to modern supermarkets, these sticky spiced buns have crossed many borders and beliefs. Today, you can buy them in all kinds ...

The discovery sheds some light on a "lost" dynasty of pharaohs who ruled during a little-understood time in ancient Egypt's long history.

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 ...

That image is dead wrong, according to modern scholars. Ancient sculptors were very much interested in color as well as form; the white marble statues we admire looked stunningly different in ...

The sequenced individuals date to the middle pastoral period, about 7,000 years ago. This is remarkable preservation; most ancient African ... as has been initiated for modern livestock genomes ...

A pioneering study discovered a previously unknown human lineage in Africa that dates back 50,000 years when modern human ...