A newly excavated cave in Israel holds burials and artifacts suggesting that multiple human species commingled and shared ...

Science has already proven that sculptures from ancient Greece and Rome were often painted in warm colors, and now a Danish ...

Roughly 8,000-year-old remains unearthed from present-day Tunisia held a surprise: European hunter-gatherer ancestry ...

An ancient Egyptian woman thought to have been pregnant and dying of cancer was actually just embalmed with a technique that ...

How and when domestic cats arrived in China has been a mystery. A new analysis of cat DNA suggests traders and diplomats ...

Mummy aroma may provide insight into social class and historical period, according to a team of trained mummy sniffers ...

A painstaking study of an archaeology site in western Honduras showed just how far back the avocado has been farmed.

New DNA research shows that half the human beings alive today are descended from the Yamnaya, who lived in Ukraine 5,000 ...

These findings challenge the long-held narrative about migration into and out of North Africa before and during the Neolithic ...

Three iron age bracelets and a pin contain metal from a single meteorite that fell over southern Poland more than 2500 years ...

This discovery contradicts the prevailing notion about El Salvador’s cultural backwardness or isolation in the ancient times, ...