In what the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (Inrap) is calling an “unprecedented” discovery ...

Ancient Lost Worlds and Hidden History. On location videos made by author and adventurer Brien Foerster exploring Peru, ...

Scientists have shed new light on the rhino family tree after recovering a protein sequence from a fossilized tooth from more ...

An international team, including astronomers from Keele University, has performed a unique cosmic test to measure the mass of ...

Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived ...

Researchers sequenced ancient Egyptian DNA from a 4,500-year-old skeleton, revealing genetic links between early Egypt and ...

An ancient rock engraving in the Lower Nile Valley may offer a rare glimpse into the origin of Egyptian kings. The art panel ...

Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, ...

Researchers have described proteins that they say are among the most ancient ever sequenced. Two teams, which analysed ...

“Ancient DNA has produced a revolution in our understanding of recent human origins,” said Daniel Green, field program ...

Ancient Greek military thinking and strategy presents useful lessons for modern military theorists and practitioners.