Researchers incubated permafrost samples from Alaska at different temperatures and found that microbes from the last ice age ...

The familial statue mixed together different styles of craftsmanship in a way never before seen in ancient Egyptian culture.

Researchers have unearthed South America’s first amber deposits containing ancient insects in an Ecuadorian quarry, offering a rare 112-million-year-old glimpse into life on the supercontinent ...

Along Turkey’s northwestern shoreline, where the Aegean Sea meets the olive-covered ridges of Anatolia, lies a quiet district ...

Turns out, ancient body art is a lot more common than we once thought—and it's providing historians with new ways of ...

An archaeologist is piecing together what the V-shaped stone structures—some stretching 500 feet long—were used for.

New research reveals fungi, not plants, were Earth's first land colonizers, emerging hundreds of millions of years earlier.

Beryllium-10 spike in Pacific sediments hints at nearby supernova 10 million years ago, revealing cosmic impacts on Earth’s ...

After careful analysis, Hansen and colleague Christophe Helmke believe they may finally have the answer—and the evidence has ...

Mammoths were not the only enormous beasts ancient humans hunted. Elephant ancestors were also on the menu. While analyzing ...

A new book by India's education ministry highlights ancient scientific contributions, aiming to inspire curiosity and ...

In the study, scientists were interested in exploring how ancient people moved these gigantic stone structures without any ...