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

Nefertari was the beloved wife of Rameses II, and her extravagant tomb proves it. Its restored paintings tell an interesting ...

Was Caligula misunderstood? New research shows the Roman emperor likely knew more about medicinal plants than historians once believed ...

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

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

Shakespeare showed us the fatal convergence of pride, misperception and political paralysis. In “ Coriolanus ,” the warrior ...

The flip-flop's history stretches much further than Y2K beachwear or TikTok fashion hacks. Its earliest ancestor dates back ...

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

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

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

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

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