High on the sheer limestone cliffs in southwest China, ancient wooden coffins remain wedged into rock faces hundreds of feet ...

For decades, research and understanding of the diverse bone raw material used by the Late Prehispanic Period (~1220 to 330 ...

Ancient thinkers struggled to tell facts from falsehoods just like we do – and their strategies are still relevant today.

Waššukanni has never been found and some scholars think that it may be located in northeastern Syria. The people who lived in ...

Scientists used mtDNA to confirm what many researchers had long suspected: the Chinese “dragon man” Harbin skull belonged to ...

Roman soldiers at Hadrian’s Wall weren’t just defending the frontier—they were also battling parasites that made daily life ...

Scientists used mtDNA to confirm what many researchers had long suspected: the Chinese “dragon man” Harbin skull belonged to ...

Rare coins surfacing on the Black Market rarely come with a return address, yet a recent case has led straight back to a ...

Researchers studied fossils, well-preserved remains and even a single fingerprint to solve some of history’s long-standing mysteries this year.

Caltech is a place unlike any other, an Institute that is truly “small but mighty.” Its small size and the expertise of its ...

The mummified body of a Nile predator lay silent for roughly 3,000 years, but a modern CT scanner has now replayed its final, ...

A faded label suggested the bones had been unearthed at the nearby Beachy Head cliffs sometime in the 1950s, though specific details of the original excavation had been lost to time. What followed was ...