Think ancient civilizations were primitive? The evidence suggests otherwise.From computers that tracked celestial events to ...

How ancient African terracing systems, validated by the Green Belt Movement, prefigure the 'innovative' principles of space ...

That makes Liang Metanduno the home of the oldest known artwork in the world, beating the previous contender (a Neanderthal ...

Nitrogen, upon which all life on Earth depends, may hold the key for explaining how early life on the planet evolved and how it could evolve on other planets.

Treponema pallidum, a microorganism that can cause a deadly sexually transmitted disease in humans, may have a far more ancient lineage than scientists once thought ...

A 5500-year-old genome recovered from human skeletal remains in Colombia may give insights into the early evolution of ...

In this Ancient Architects exclusive, we reveal never‑before‑seen drone footage from Karahan Tepe — one of the world’s oldest and most mysterious Neolithic sites. Captured by Dakota of Earth, this ...

The year’s most notable findings also include insights into dog and sheep domestication and a new species of manta ray in the museum’s collection Jack Tamisiea The newly-described early pterosaur ...

Archaeologists working at an excavation site in Pompeii have uncovered new evidence that helps explain why ancient Roman buildings have lasted for thousands of years. The discovery points to a special ...

Archaeologists excavating a Pompeii site uncovered the secret behind the longevity of ancient Roman structures: a unique concrete mixture that could chemically repair itself over time. A recent study, ...

Season’s greetings from The Debrief… this week in our top stories, researchers have unveiled a novel “cloaking device” that can shield complex objects from detection using real-world materials.

In a groundbreaking discovery at Kalambo Falls in northern Zambia, archaeologists have uncovered a wooden structure dating back 476,000 years. This finding challenges the conventional understanding of ...