Images capture the remarkable variety of petroglyphs etched into rock across a wide swathe of land, from Mongolia to the ...

Scientists discover Bronze Age plague DNA in 4,000-year-old sheep remains, shedding light on how ancient diseases spread ...

One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet ...

More than a billion years ago, in a shallow basin across what is now northern Ontario, a subtropical lake much like ...

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

History is filled with powerful empires that seemed invincible until they weren't. Between roughly 1250 and 1150 BCE, major ...

Long before whales and sharks, enormous marine reptiles dominated the oceans with unmatched power. Scientists have ...

In a Caribbean cave, researchers discovered hundreds of fossils with bee nests within them. It is the first time this behavior has been recorded, a new study finds.

Cats were domesticated in North Africa, but spread to Europe only about 2,000 years ago. Earlier reports of “house” cats were ...

Ancient Greek winter solstice festivals such as Haloa and Poseidon’s month blended astronomy, fertility rites, and the divine ...

An archaeological team has uncovered for the first time more than half of the temple, long buried under River Nile sediment.

Pharaoh Shoshenq III had been buried in this tomb even though he had already built a larger one elsewhere in city of Tanis.