For much of prehistory, Southeast Asia was not a scattering of islands separated by shallow seas. It was a single, immense ...

Klaus Blaum, Christian Doeller, and Johannes Krause — three leading scientists from the Max Planck Society — have been ...

New DNA evidence reveals that the cats of ancient China were not what they seemed.

Amongst the most enduring mythical creatures, which were present in so many ancient cultures, are the dragons. Appearing frequently in folklore and tales from China in the east to Europe in the west, ...

Cats didn’t become house pets because humans needed them. They didn’t herd animals, pull carts, or guard property.

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

Researchers spent four years analyzing to rule out natural wildfires. Geochemical tests showed temperatures had exceeded 700 degrees Celsius.

Ancient DNA from Denisovans left humans a powerful genetic advantage — a gene that helped early Americans survive new ...

Archaeologists working in the Southern Ural Mountains have uncovered an unexpected clue about how an ancient plague once moved across Eurasia. A tiny sheep tooth found at the Bronze Age site of Arkaim ...

Pyrite found at a 400,000-year-old site in Barnham, England suggests that early humans were making fire long before experts ...

European travel expert Rick Steves says tourists should visit this rather macabre attraction found in Italy that houses ...

New research led by the British Museum has found evidence of the world’s oldest human fire-making activity in Barnham, ...