Why would prehistoric humans carry their youngest children deep into the winding, pitch-black recesses of ancient caves?

New technologies today often involve electronic devices that are smaller and smarter than before. During the Middle Paleolithic, when Neanderthals were modern humans' neighbors, new technologies meant ...

How did Gothic art influence the modernists? An exhibition in Norway explores how artists like Dürer and Hans Holbein's ...

His team collected a great number of ceramic vats from local people of Luoning and made a giant art installation out of them.

When a disease-causing pathogen such as a flu virus is already adapted to infect a particular animal species, it may eventually evolve the ability to infect a new species, such as humans, through a ...

On Hacking Humans, this week Dave Bittner is back with Joe Carrigan, and Maria Varmazis (also host of N2K's daily space podcast, T-Minus), and they are sharing the latest in social engineering scams, ...

OLD SOLID CHEESE found in an Ancient Egyptian tomb offers fascinating insight into the deep connection between dairy and ...

These discoveries include burial sites dating back to the Neolithic and Bronze Age, alongside an array of Buddhist art and ...

In a cave in Azerbaijan, archaeologists have uncovered an 8,400-year-old figurine that could rewrite the story of prehistoric ...

While bones can regrow themselves when they break, teeth aren’t so lucky, and that leads to millions of people worldwide suffering from some form of edentulism, a.k.a. toothlessness. Now ...

a Neolithic culture dating back 4,600 to 7,000 years across the northern part of China. Gu, who was former head of Shuanghuaishu's archaeological team, says human bone analysis reveals that most ...

Excavations at the Shuanghuaishu Site in Gongyi unearthed the remnants of a sprawling city that traces its origins to the ...