Unearthing the secrets of our ancient ancestors, researchers have recently discovered 78,000-year-old footprints left by a ...

Domestic dogs are among the most diverse mammals on the planet. From the tiny chihuahua to the towering great dane, the ...

New research shows RNA is preserved for longer than scientists had realized. This is the oldest RNA ever profiled.

Scientists have extracted the oldest RNA molecules out of a woolly mammoth, gaining a snapshot into the processes at work in ...

New research suggests the Band of Holes in southern Peru may have been first a market and later an Inca accounting device.

“Our findings, combined with prior research, indicate that opium use was more than accidental or sporadic in ancient Egyptian ...

For 5,000 years scholars, generals, and mystics have been fascinated by the Egyptian pyramids. That obsession persists in the ...

Step through the gates of Olympus and you meet a reality far more exacting than myth: stone fatigue, seismic stress, polluted ...

Among the early Maya, the site of Aguada Fénix would have been a place for everyone to gather for trade, socialization, and ...

Paleolithic tools found at the Namorotukunan site in Kenya suggest that early Homo species kept their technology going even ...

Drone footage and on-the-ground excavations high in the Andes are revealing what the Chincha Kingdom and Inca Empire may have ...