In an excerpt from his new book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean explores a weird and wild '90s experiment to replicate ancient ...

Across Egypt and beyond stone surfaces reveal machining marks so precise they raise questions about what tools ancient ...

Plague, leprosy, smallpox and other diseases didn't jump from animals to humans when we thought. Ancient DNA is revealing ...

Mayong Central Museum and Emporium features ancient manuscripts (“mantra puthis”) dating from about the 13th to 19th ...

Traditionally, paleoanthropologists believed that Homo habilis, as the earliest big-brained humans, was responsible for the earliest sites with tools. The idea has been that Homo habilis was the ...

The past has never been more visible. While ancient ruins crumble under the weight of time, weather, and human activity, a ...

Experts have been puzzled by recently discovered fossils from the hand of an extinct human relative, Paranthropus boisei.

The Maya civilization possessed the remarkable ability to forecast solar eclipses with stunning accuracy for over 700 years, using nothing more than careful observation and mathematical genius. A ...

Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa. After archaeologists ...

Nestled in the heart of Laurel, Maryland, the M-NCPPC Dinosaur Park delivers exactly that—a chance to uncover ancient history with your bare hands, without any worry about being chased by hungry ...

Ruidoso sits like a jewel in the crown of the Sacramento Mountains. Tall pines sway overhead as you stroll through a downtown that manages to be both rustic and sophisticated. The name means “noisy” ...

Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa ...