As ancient communities shifted from foraging to farming, the forces driving this dramatic change weren’t always what many ...

Seeing the north coast of Peru for the first time, you would be hard-pressed to believe it's one of the driest deserts in the ...

In a study published in the journal PNAS, researchers compared house size distributions from more than 1,000 sites around the ...

We're living in a period where the gap between rich and poor is dramatic, and it's continuing to widen. But inequality is nothing new. In a new study researchers compared house size distributions from ...

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 unknown ancestry. DNA analysis of the mummies, which are the remains of ...

Researchers have discovered an extensive and remarkably well-preserved system of ancient irrigation canals in the Eridu ...