Ancient linkups may have happened more frequently between female humans and male Neanderthals, according to an new genetic ...

Around 2.3 billion years ago, the Great Oxygenation Event (GOE) marked a major turning point in Earth’s history. The increase ...

Sometimes it feels like 2020 is ancient history -- like when I'm drafting in Tout Wars, for instance.

Long-term excavation at Sardis continues to reveal its rich past. Collaboration and continuity are key to protecting and understanding the ancient city.

When ancient humans interbred, new research shows that the pairings were predominantly male Neanderthals and female Homo ...

Walter Crist, who researches ancient games at Leiden University in the Netherlands, first saw the carved limestone in 2020, at the Het Romeins Museum. Located in the southern Dutch city of Heerlen, ...

Roughly 2,500 years of catastrophic warfare are not enough to teach Steven Miller and other Trump administration leaders.

Ancient Iran had a series of powerful empires that left their mark on antiquity. Then as now, imperial power is seldom acquired or advertised through peaceful means, and the more expansionist it is, t ...

The ancient Egyptians built temples that lasted thousands of years, and one of them happens to be in San Jose. Well, ...

A cognitive investigation of Howiesons Poort engraved ostrich eggshells, published by PLOS One analyzed 112 engraved fragments from sites in South Africa and Namibia. A companion report summarizing ...

The history of writing down thoughts and feelings could be tens of thousands of years older than previously believed, ...

More than 12,000 years ago, two closely-related women – a mother and her daughter, perhaps – were buried in an eternal embrace. This Ice Age pair of hunter-gatherers were both shorter than average for ...