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

Bones dating back 25,000 years suggest that humans lived in extremely icy conditions in Tibet, which were previously thought ...

Science has already proven that sculptures from ancient Greece and Rome were often painted in warm colors, and now a Danish ...

Most prehistoric Europeans had dark skin, hair and eyes well into the Iron Age, about 3,000 years ago, new research finds.

A geology professor believed that aerial photos from the 1950s show evidence of an ancient city under Nakhon Ratchasima in ...

The enigmatic people who created the figures may have shared cultural traditions with neighboring Maya and other ancient ...

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

The ruins of an ancient Jewish ritual bath have been found near Rome – the oldest such discovery outside of the biblical ...

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

The marbles in the Torlonia Collection have been inaccessible to the public for decades. Now, some of them will be exhibited ...

Bone fragments from a cave in northern Spain suggest there were multiple hominin species living in western Europe around a ...

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