A rock shelter with rock art and inscriptions spanning millennia has been discovered in Egypt.

Millions visit the vast and remarkably preserved ancient city of Ephesus each year, stepping back through the centuries to walk marble streets, explore Roman baths and admire landmarks like the ...

However, careful reexaminations indicate the “little awl” is far more significant than originally believed—so much so that it ...

Fragments of DNA from long-extinct human relatives still circulate in modern genomes, and in some cases they do more than ...

The situation is so unique that the area has earned a fitting nickname: Sharkansas. Paleontologists have long wondered how these remarkable preservations formed. According to a study published by ...

New evidence has emerged that sheds light on the possible first people to populate the Americas. Dating of stone and ivory ...

The ancient Olympic games were crowded with male athletes, but were there opportunities for females to compete in sports?

Gyms (gymnasiums) in Ancient Greece were vibrant communal hubs where elite men forged identities through exercise and philosophical debates.

Revealing remarkable religious diversity in the region, German archaeologists uncovered evidence of Christians and ...

It was the summer of 2020, and researcher Walter Crist was wandering around the exhibits inside a Dutch museum dedicated to the presence of the ancient Roman empire in the Netherlands. As a ...

A new study suggests that some of the world’s oxygen-deprived oceans could eventually regain higher oxygen levels in the ...

Maize farmers in Peru’s Chincha Valley were fertilizing their crops with seabird poop as early as the year 1250 ...