Ancient mammals that lived in the time of dinosaurs were mostly the same dark-brown colour, according to a new study ...

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

The new study showed that the frequency of people with dark skin was still high in parts of Europe until the Copper Age (also ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.