Old beliefs about early human behavior in East Asia are being challenged by the discovery of a richly-layered archaeological ...

New evidence has emerged that sheds light on the possible first people to populate the Americas. Dating of stone and ivory ...

New discoveries from Denisova Cave include ancient DNA extracted from sediments and sophisticated jewelry dated to around ...

For over a century, strange machining marks on Egyptian stone have defied explanation, showing levels of precision beyond even modern tools. Some researchers now connect this evidence to a dooms day ...

How far back does the rich history of Italian olives and oil stretch? My new research, published in the American Journal of ...

About 2,000 years ago, life in the Roman town of Pompeii—located in modern-day Italy—looked a lot like life anywhere else.

A single ancient jawbone is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about humanity’s forgotten relatives.

Featuring ancient ruins spanning from the Paleolithic Age to the Tang Dynasty (618-907), six sites were revealed by the ...

Archaeologists in central China have uncovered evidence that early humans were far more inventive than long assumed. Excavations at the Xigou site reveal advanced stone tools, including the earliest ...

By measuring the galaxy’s redshift, the scientists behind the discovery were able to confirm that its light has been ...

Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have discovered a galaxy that is providing unprecedented insights into the early stages of the universe - revealing details that scientists say ...

An archaeological discovery of two artifacts in southern Greece are the oldest known handheld wooden tools fashioned by early human ancestors.