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

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

China's first pet cats arrived in the country around 1,400 years ago — likely via the famous Silk Road trading route, ancient ...

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

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

COPENHAGEN: Science has already proven that sculptures from ancient Greece and Rome were often painted in warm colours, and now a Danish study has revealed that some were also perfumed.

Archaeologists in Mongolia have uncovered a mass grave of Han warriors who fought against the Xiongnu over 2,000 years ago.

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

Scientists are studying the 60-million-year-old remains of a very very early resident of New Mexico. “This was a tree ...

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

Athens' oldest coins were created from silver originating around the world, a study suggests, revealing an unknown ancient ...