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 ...
In the Middle Ages, a plague killed a third of Europe's population. Fleas carried the plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, ...
Roman soldiers at Hadrian’s Wall weren’t just defending the frontier—they were also battling parasites that made daily life ...
Scientists have reconstructed the head of an ancient human relative from 1.5 million year-old fossilized bones and teeth. But ...
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.