An ancient woman thought to have hailed from sub-Saharan Africa and therefore to have been the first known Black Briton ...

The Serapeum holds massive stone boxes that display signs of advanced machining, raising questions about the technology used ...

Excavations of an ancient construction site in Pompeii have revealed the process of how Romans mixed their self-healing ...

Concrete was the foundation of the ancient Roman empire. It enabled Rome's storied architectural revolution as well as the ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

While cleaning fossils retrieved from a cave on a Caribbean island, a researcher noticed something strange in the hollow ...

Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose ...

A group of scientists are studying the Cyclades, an island group in Greece's Aegean Sea, looking for signs of early human ...

As far as kitchen staples, you don’t really get much better than olive oil. It can do it all—jazz up a salad, sauté ...

French marine archaeologists have made a groundbreaking discovery off the coast of Brittany - a massive underwater wall dating to approximately 5000 BC that predates the famous megalithic monuments of ...

A remarkably intact pottery vessel dating back more than 10,000 years has been recovered from the depths of Lake Biwa, Japan, marking one of the oldest and most significant ceramic discoveries in ...

In a Caribbean cave, researchers discovered hundreds of fossils with bee nests within them. It is the first time this behavior has been recorded, a new study finds.