Sharjah: For centuries, Muslim explorers and scholars roamed deserts, crossed oceans, and documented the world with ...

A new study has shown that as early as the Stone Age, people in Africa traveled long distances to procure colorful stone, the ...

The discovery of an ancient meteorite impact crater was recently reported in Western Australia. But not everyone is convinced ...

528 pages : 23 cm "Only once we understand the long history of human efforts to draw sustenance from the land can we grasp the nature of the crisis that faces humankind today, as hundreds of millions ...

Beneath our feet, hundreds of kilometers deep, lies an invisible yet essential world: the Earth's mantle. For a long time, scientists believed they understood its structure and functioning. But a ...

Within the last 200 years, we’ve discovered about two dozen species of hominins in Europe, Africa, and Asia—which you can see laid out in this map.

Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name "Hadean" comes from the ...

The remains of extinct Homo erectus dredged from the seabed off Java, along with thousands of animal fossils, are revealing a long-lost ecosystem.