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

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

The origins of many holiday traditions are shrouded in mystery, a hodgepodge of beliefs steeped in myths, folklore, legends, ...

Nearly 4000 years ago, and 1500 years before Pompeii was buried by volcanic ash, the Bronze Age city of Akrotiri was ...

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

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

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.

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

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

The first museum in the UAE, the Al Ain Museum was originally founded all the way back in 1969 and will now reopen on Friday4 ...

By this point in the interpretive history, Nimrod has become a full-fledged villain. He is the builder of the Tower of Babel, ...

Using whole-genome data from approx. 350 contemporary and historical mosquitoes, researchers, led by Princeton University and including scientists from London’s Natural History Museum, show that the ...