Found in the ancient city of Caracol, the tomb contained a rare jade mask, ceramics, and jewelry often linked to the Maya ...

Are there really ancient linguistic connections between Ancient Greek and Polynesian languages? What do these reveal about the ancient world?

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

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

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

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

Across history, ancient civilizations crafted prototypes for many of the modern mechanisms that have become integral to ...

When large marine animals like whales die, they sink down to the seabed. Once their flesh has been stripped away by ...

An excerpt from ‘Multiple Legacies’ by Kumkum Roy in the collection ‘Women Writing History: Three Generations’.

From Stone Age astronomy to Viking law and Roman goddesses, cultures across time have honored the longest day of the year ...