Humans are actually limited in how much protein they can metabolize for energy, meaning early humans really needed a more ...

Researchers have uncovered the world’s oldest known cave art—a 67,800-year-old hand stencil in Indonesia. The unusual, claw-like design hints at early symbolic thinking and possibly spiritual beliefs.

Archaeologists have unearthed a remarkable discovery in New Mexico that proves once and for all that humans came to North ...

According to the researchers, the inscriptions’ discovery is not new. Early Egyptologists noticed them, but did not know what ...

They say pollen, plant remains, insects and microscopic organisms were preserved underneath peat.

Dated to the Byzantine and Early Islamic periods (fifth to seventh century CE), the church is the sixth to be discovered at the site.

A Tudor-era hull dug out of a Kent gravel quarry is filling in a crucial missing chapter of British maritime history.

A volcanic ash layer dated to roughly 11,000 years before present has been found sitting stratigraphically beneath the artifacts and organic materials at Chile’s Monte Verde II site, a location long ...

A landmark site in the peopling of the Americas is several thousand years younger than we thought. While that means very different things about the site itself, it doesn’t change the big picture as ...

"Cosmic archaeologists" have discovered an iron-deficient second-generation star, which provides evidence of how ancient stars enriched their successors.

Rare hand axes from the Sakhnin Valley show Homo erectus picked fossil- and crystal-rich stones for visual appeal, hinting at ...

A hidden section of medieval wall painting, not seen for hundreds of years, is giving clues to the grand past of Durham ...