Wright/Princeton UniversityEver since the first Neanderthal bones were discovered, people have wondered about these ancient ...

One of history’s most controversial, reviled, and yet important figures, the first conquistador, Christopher Columbus, is the ...

Studying microscopic layers of dirt dug from the Tam Pà Ling cave site in northeastern Laos has provided a team of Flinders ...

The sudden emergence of witch trials in early modern Europe may have been fueled by one of humanity's most significant ...

We often think about our distant ancestors as primitive, equipped with the crudest of tools and a limited set of skills. But ...

A team of Spanish scientists has reached some important conclusions about the cause of death of newborn infants who passed ...

Shell-ring archaeological sites, “one of the most visible site types along the lower South Atlantic Coast of the United ...

German archaeological mission has unearthed the funerary chamber of a woman named "Idi”, the sole daughter of Djefai-Hapy, ...

By Talia Ogliore/ Washington University in St. LouisArchaeological surveys led by scientists at Washington University in St.

By examining ancient walrus DNA, an international research team led by Lund University in Sweden have retraced the walrus ...

Haas, who lived between 1509 and 1576, is credited as the first to document ideas like multi-stage rockets, spacecraft ...

Hidden out of sight and forgotten for centuries in the Shoham Community Forest, near the heart of Israel, archaeologists have ...