This relatively recent finding extends the timeline of the use of betel nuts thousands of years into the past, far into the ...

Seven Denisovan fossils from Bianfu Cave in southwest China have opened an unusually detailed window onto a vanished archaic human population. Dating from about 167,000 to 134,000 years ago, the finds ...

A placename from a charter from the 10th century and the description of an ancient transaction offer clues related to the ...

The three surviving Devil’s Arrows megaliths, the tallest of which stands at 6.86 meters (22.5 feet), are spaced out across a distance of 174 meters. The monument was likely constructed during the ...

A skull partly exposed by erosion beside the Darling River in north-western New South Wales carried a wound that looked startlingly like the work of a sharp blade. The burial was later dated to the ...

The ancient Stoics did not teach that humans should suppress every feeling that arises in their bodies. They understood that many emotions, including shock, fear and pain, as well as a sudden ...

A collaborative mission of Egypt and Spain has discovered a tomb from the Fifth Dynasty, whose painted reliefs retain most of ...

Archaeologists have discovered a vividly colored Roman pet mosaic in Adramytteion, Turkey that contains the names of two ...

Viking graves are very rare in this area of Jutland, and the acid soil of the region usually destroys organic materials after ...

Cave art located in eight caves in Ireland may indicate that people were there thousands of years before conventional views ...

Someone engineered a wooden structure 476,000 years ago. Yes you read it correctly… ...

Two extraordinary serpent artifacts dating back to almost 3,800 years ago, created from deer antlers and clay, provide a rare ...