A study says the Ain Samiya goblet, found in 1970, depicts a moment of cosmic creation, challenging previous scholarly ...

A genetic study of 80 skulls found at a Stone Age city in China has revealed that the sacrificed people were mostly men, in ...

The royal symbol on the newly discovered figurines solves a long-standing mystery by identifying who was buried in the ...

Cornwall has several stone circles, and as many as 800 sit across the United Kingdom, remnants of prehistoric people who ...

Archaeologists in Hungary have uncovered a 1,300-year-old warrior’s tomb containing one of only about 80 known Avar sabers, a ...

There is an art to rivalry. Mastering its rules has, since ancient times, shaped cultural history over millennia.

Plant species mentioned in texts from the past 800 years hint the wooded grasslands of western India have been there since ...

There were 22 gold objects, in addition to other impressive grave goods, buried with the deceased, indicating they were ...

"Some of our ancestors were very skilled observers." A team of international researchers say they've uncovered new data on ...

The elongated skull was likely caused by a genetic condition, but it evidently didn’t get in the way of the individual’s ...

Olive oil is the Swiss army knife of foodstuffs. It can dress salads, sauté vegetables, even grease squeaky hinges. And for ...

Earth's atmosphere might have contributed to the origin of life more than previously thought. In a study published in the ...