A teenage boy who lived more than 6,000 years ago was able to survive a lion attack and live for several months afterwards, a ...

Teams have now re-examined the 2000-year-old skeleton and its DNA with new techniques. Analysis revealed she was around 18 to ...

Sahura sits amongst the Abusir complex, a popular burial site near the Nile River for pharaohs of the Fifth Dynasty of ...

Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence yet of fire technology — and it was created by Neanderthals in England more ...

A faded label suggested the bones had been unearthed at the nearby Beachy Head cliffs sometime in the 1950s, though specific details of the original excavation had been lost to time. What followed was ...

Some of the victims at Pompeii were wearing woolen cloaks when they died, even though it was August, new research finds.

Archaeologists in Norway have excavated a Viking Age grave of an individual bedecked in costume and jewelry, as reported by ...

As far as kitchen staples, you don’t really get much better than olive oil. It can do it all—jazz up a salad, sauté ...

A group of scientists are studying the Cyclades, an island group in Greece's Aegean Sea, looking for signs of early human ...

The oldest evidence for human ancestors using fire, dating back to between 1 million and 1.5 million years ago, comes from a ...

Students at Southwestern Middle School recently had the chance to show off their creative sides in a science fair for ...

Clues from a digital reconstruction of a lavish ancient home are changing how researchers understand Pompeii’s elite.