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

An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...

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

The discovery reveals some astounding hidden history.

"A plague is upon us'' may have been a common phrase in ancient Jordan, where countless people perished from a mysterious ...

The cave paintings were discovered by an international team of researchers preserved in limestone caves on one of Sulawesi’s ...

The 1,400 year-old "sand burials" of two people and a horse were found near a nuclear power plant construction site in the ...

A child, hiker, or canoeist who picks up a single arrowhead is far more likely to encounter a teachable moment than criminal ...

The archaeological discoveries span several areas of ancient Chinese life, including agriculture, textiles, animal ...

Writers in the Tang period described “golden armor,” but archaeologists had not previously had a physical example to examine. That gap is what makes this restoration notable: the conservation work ...

A palm-sized fragment of elephant bone, shaped and used as a precision tool almost half a million years ago, has been identified as the oldest known elephant-bone implement in Europe. Although the ...

Erich von Däniken, the Swiss author whose books on the extraterrestrial origins of ancient civilizations brought him both ...