The origins of whaling are highly debated. Now, some of the earliest signs of active whale hunting have appeared somewhere ...

A deep look at the most graffiti-filled corridor in all of Pompeii revealed 79 new inscriptions from over 2,000 years ago, ...

A new analysis of mineral grains has refuted the "glacial transport theory" that suggests Stonehenge's bluestones and Altar ...

The only building described in detail by Vitruvius has finally been found, after centuries of searching. Marcus Vitruvius ...

“Our results push back the association of T. pallidum with humans by thousands of years, possibly more than 10,000 years ago ...

A new study refines radiocarbon dating of marine remains and significantly improves the precision with which the human past ...

At a shocking 20 centimeters (8 inches) long and 5 centimeters (2 inches) wide, this coprolite is the largest intact piece of ...

A new study suggests humans belong in an elite “league of monogamy,” ranking closer to beavers and meerkats than to chimpanzees. By comparing full and half siblings across species and human cultures, ...

The world’s oldest surviving rock art is a faded outline of a hand on an Indonesian cave wall, left 67,800 years ago.

I have never been to Italy, but if I ever get the chance, you can bet one of the first things I will do is head to Rome so ...

Two corroded objects from a Bronze Age treasure in Spain have been identified as containing iron from a meteorite. This finding makes them the first known meteoritic iron artifacts from the Iberian ...

The prehistoric artist likely created the image by spraying ochre mixed with water over a hand flattened on the wall of a ...