Archaeologists have unearthed a remarkable collection of 5,000-year-old skeleton masks and skull cups crafted from human ...

Chewing gum has been around for thousands of years. These are some of the oldest known chewing gums in human history.

Nearly 4000 years ago, and 1500 years before Pompeii was buried by volcanic ash, the Bronze Age city of Akrotiri was destroyed by one of the most powerful volcanic eruptions in history. The discovery ...

A variety of subway-dwelling mosquito seems like a modern artifact. But genomic analysis reveals the insect got its evolutionary start millennia ago.

Scientists have uncovered a mysterious relic from an area of the moon that has never been explored by humans until now.

When news stories ignore the past, the audience sometimes struggles to fully understand the issue. Because of this, history ...

Researchers at a Harvard Medical School laboratory are uncertain how they will continue supporting a large public genetic database after its primary source of funding expired last month.

It traces the evolution of human life in Qatar from the Paleolithic and Neolithic ages Dubai: In a remarkable celebration of ...

Excavated with colonial labor and shipped to the Netherlands, the famous fossil is being repatriated to Indonesia along with ...

In the early 20th century, as logging threatened to wipe out California’s ancient redwoods, a group of forward-thinking conservationists formed the Save the Redwoods League. Their efforts led to the ...

Hundreds of life-sized animal petroglyphs suggest that the notoriously arid region was populated around 12,000 years ago, according to a new study.

A remarkable 220-meter dinosaur trackway, one of the world's longest, has been unearthed in Oxfordshire, revealing the ...