Our hunter-gatherer ancestors have given us many things. They passed down mastery of fire for cooking and early survival ...

High-resolution scans of ancient Egyptian stone vases reveal levels of precision that are difficult to explain with known ...

New evidence is reviving questions about a massive stone structure lost to time in ancient Egypt. Precision stonework and ...

Ochre remains, dating back 18,000 years ago, were unearthed at the Fodongdi site in Lincang, Southwest China's Yunnan ...

Archaeologists in Ningbo, East China's Zhejiang Province have uncovered a prehistoric site dating back to 4,100 years ago. The discovery not only pushes the recorded history of civilization in Cixi, a ...

A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale ...

The Kailasa Temple at Ellora, a monolithic structure carved from a single rock, is one of the best examples of Indian ...

What did a vulture-bone flute sound like inside a cave? How about singing inside a tomb? Researchers are bringing ancient ...

These genomes are the oldest yet found of modern humans in Europe, though they were not the first hominids to walk these ...

Heat-reddened clay, fire-cracked stone, and fragments of pyrite mark where Neanderthals gathered around a campfire 400,000 ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...