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Thaís Pansani examines the marks humans left on megafauna bones to determine when people arrived in South America and how they interacted with giant mammals Chihiro Kai 14,000 years ago, an early ...

A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

Researchers have reconstructed ancient herpesvirus genomes from Iron Age and medieval Europeans, revealing that HHV-6 has ...

Read about the volcano that some believe almost wiped humans off the planet Donald R. Prothero Our story begins on a very bad day about 74,000 years ago. The planet was starting to move out of one of ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. The historian Rob Boddice sat cross-legged on his couch in Montreal on a frigid day last winter and conjured ...

Streamers of police tape decorated the deserted Offaly bog in central Ireland. Heavy rain poured down on Cathy Moore and Conor McDermott as they trudged through the thick mud. Their boots squelched ...

Archaeologists in Gorham's Cave in Gibraltar have been delving into the past to uncover some fascinating finds and they ...

Sven Beckert has spent nearly a decade trying to understand the 1,000-year-old thing that capitalism is. "This is a ...

This year is the centennial of the discovery of human brain waves. Few people know the story of that startling finding, because the true story was suppressed and lost to history. Almost two decades ...

Recent archaeological discoveries across the Americas are reshaping our understanding of ancient history. At the forefront is the Gault site, where archaeologist Michael Collins has unearthed ...

34 U.S. government and military officials get candid about the UFO/UAP phenomenon in the first trailer for a newly announced "shot in secret" film by Dan Farah premiering at SXSW. By James Hibberd ...