Although the burial mound itself was modest, a simple oval rise of earth, it held a combination of objects that would soon ...

On a recent visit to Estonia, Swedish Nobel laureate Svante Pääbo reflected on his family's ties to Estonia, its scientific ...

It is one of the greatest enigmas of the Old Kingdom. Following the stunning engineering and organizational feat of the Great Pyramid of Giza, something unexpected happened. Instead of continuing and ...

This robot learned to walk in 48 hours ...

The launch of the first domestic programmable machine became the starting point for the digital era in our country, giving ...

Quick thinking, safe paws.

The Chinchorro culture experienced tragically high rates of infant mortality, possibly due to arsenic poisoning.

Domestic cats first joined European communities around 2,000 years ago, during the age of Roman power, not in deep prehistory ...

Contrary to popular belief, domestic cats arrived in Europe much later, around 2,000 years ago, from North Africa, not with ...

Evidence from Newgrange suggests ancient Ireland was more egalitarian than once believed, with no clear signs of a ruling ...

Domestic cats appeared in Europe about two thousand years ago, their spread was facilitated by the military roads of the ...

An isolated burial in Sudan has revealed the first evidence of an unknown funeral ritual that took place nearly 4,000 years ago in a little-known African kingdom, a new study finds.