Recent scientific reevaluations of remains have historians rethinking the prevalence of women fighters throughout history.

Archaeologists discovered clusters of red ocher drawings scattered on rocks and cliffs across Canaima National Park—and have some theories on who made the mysterious art.

A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, reveals that evaporated water left a briny broth where salts and minerals ...

Casarabe people grew the nutritious crop year-round on savannas thanks to networks of drainage canals and ponds.

Analysis of samples taken from the asteroid Bennu reveal the presence of organic compounds important for life, and that its ...

A pre-Columbian society in the Amazon developed a sophisticated agricultural engineering system that allowed them to produce maize throughout the year, according to a recent discovery. This finding ...

This homemade fettuccine Alfredo is fancy enough to make for date nights, but quick and easy enough (ready in 30 minutes!) to ...

Dr. Baumann and his colleagues hypothesize that ancient humans may have hunted and killed more animals than they could ...

At age 75, Vadevino Alano keeps up a brisk pace as he strides through the forest on the way to the Armadillo’s Den — a ...

This week, meet a big-brained ancient human relative, hear a meteorite as it lands on Earth, spot a tiny kangaroo-like marsupial, and more.

an ancient observatory and a solar calendar, and this new research adds a political dimension. Professor Parker Pearson, a Professor of British Later Prehistory, added: “We’ve known for a while that ...

Waves of human migration across Europe during the first millennium AD have been revealed using a more precise method of analysing ancestry with ancient DNA ... can bring together a picture of how ...