In a ground-breaking discovery nestled in the mountains of the Caucasus, archaeologists have unearthed a partial jawbone of Homo erectus in Georgia, which ...

This now-extinct tongue was probably spoken somewhere in Eurasia as many as 8,000 years ago. But how do we know ...

Chinese archaeologists discovered a 2,200-year-old stone inscription that suggests China’s first emperor sent alchemists to a ...

Millions in India's eastern city of Kolkata will draw on millennia-old traditions when they celebrate the Hindu festival of ...

On Sept. 27, 1822, French philologist Jean-François Champollion announced that he had deciphered ancient Egyptian ...

Alternative and offbeat historic sites within driving distance of Albany, highlighting the ancient, the supernatural and the ...

Tiny iron-rich stones called ooids reveal surprising insights into Earth’s early oceans. New research shows dissolved organic carbon levels were 90–99% lower than expected, challenging existing ...

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, according to ...

A reconstruction of a one-million-year-old skull suggested that our species started to emerge hundreds of thousands of years ...

The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.

The seat is across from the entrance to the Villa of the Mysteries, a large property full of beautiful frescoes located just ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 ...