Ten thousand years after mastodons disappeared, scientists have unearthed powerful fossil evidence proving these elephant ...

The research illuminates part of the Roman diet and challenges historical assumptions about thrush consumption.

Researchers recreated ancient Egyptian blue pigment and uncovered insights into its production, variability, and future tech ...

Mercury, the only metal that remains liquid at room temperature, has fascinated humans for millennia. From ancient Egypt to Mesoamerica and China, civilizations had access to this mesmerizing ...

Ancient Egyptians were not only masters of architecture – they also were the original wizards of synthetic chemistry. Around ...

Archaeological and genetic evidence points to humans entering Australia between 45,000 and 65,000 years ago.

The groundbreaking new study challenges assumptions about carbon cycles and raises new concerns about climate change.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apparently embraces the outdated "miasma theory" of disease instead of the widely ...

Archaeologists are using artificial intelligence to investigate ancient artifacts and uncover the story of human culture.

Researchers at the Chega Sofla cemetery, which dates back to the fifth millennium B.C ., found the remains of a young woman, whose skull had cranial bandaging, which changes the morphology of the ...

The Silurian Hypothesis asks whether signs of truly ancient past civilizations would even be recognisable today.

The invention of the wheel is often hailed as one of the most transformative moments in human history. Yet, for all its ...