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 ...

A new exhibition at Whanganui Regional Museum invites visitors to journey through time to explore the evolution of ancient ...

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 ...

At Rome’s Casal Lumbroso site, humans 400,000 years ago turned a dead elephant into food and tools—proof of astonishing ...

The find, announced by researchers from the State Archaeological Museum in Warsaw working alongside the University of Warsaw's Faculty of Archaeology, has been described as even more significant than ...

Mammoths were not the only enormous beasts ancient humans hunted. Elephant ancestors were also on the menu. While analyzing over 300 skeletal remains excavated in northwestern Rome, a team of ...

Ancient humans living across Southeast Asian islands over 40,000 years ago were building sturdy, seafaring boats with plant ...

From desert carvings to underwater ruins, these ancient structures are so advanced that experts still can’t agree on what ...

Researchers in Italy discovered 400,000-year-old evidence that ancient humans butchered elephants for food and tools. At the Casal Lumbroso site near Rome, they found hundreds of bones and stone ...