Discoveries ranging from the oldest known example of human mummification to first deliberate use of fire by people were made ...

The wealthiest grave containing the oldest golden artifacts ever found from the 5th millennium BC was discovered in the 1970s ...

From Nordic lullabies to Grimm’s fairytales, the wolf has always haunted the edges of human history. Even today, wolves would ...

Archaeologists uncovered discoveries spanning from Neolithic ritual centers to Roman, Byzantine and medieval remains across ...

The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...

At Ain Ghazal in modern-day Jordan, archaeologists uncovered statues over 9,000 years old—among the oldest known large-scale human representations in the world. Made from lime plaster and reeds, these ...

A newly reconstructed fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a ...

Explore the tragic events surrounding The oldest hatred as Chanukah is remembered amid recent violence against Jews.

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

On a low rise in southeastern Turkey, a ring of carved stone pillars has forced archaeologists to rethink how civilization ...

Billy Joel famously sang, we didn't start the fire - it was always burning since the world's been turning. But that's not entirely true. Humans do start fires to cook, to heat, to gather around.

Evidence of a hearth dating to about 415,000 years ago Researchers think that Neanderthals were responsible Discovery made near the village of Barnham in Suffolk Dec 10 (Reuters) - Scientists have ...