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 ...

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 ...

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

The history and techniques of Pankration, an ancient Greek martial art, have had a significant impact on modern mixed martial ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

NASA’s Perseverance rover found large crystals of quartz with a high purity on Mars, which probably had to have formed in the ...