Evidence suggests that China's "cradle of civilization" experienced marked climate disasters and social upheavals during the mid-late Holocene (around 3,000 years ago). However, the direct causes and ...

The ocean still hides many secrets, and sometimes the smallest or simplest creatures reveal the biggest clues about life.

Little Foot, a 3.67 million-year-old human ancestor, is getting a digital facial reconstruction after her skull was crushed in a cave.

A mysterious form of plague that spread across Eurasia thousands of years before the Black Death has finally revealed a ...

We can split atoms, map the human genome, and launch cars into space. Still, there are objects built hundreds or even ...

According to a new study, any alien civilizations out there? Probably short-lived — and doomed to fail spectacularly. For ...

Deep within the tropical lowlands of central Panama, archaeologists just unearthed a stunning glimpse into a thriving, ancient civilization. Scientists working at the El Caño Archaeological Park ...

In the collections of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge is a small copper-alloy tool from a cemetery at Badari in Upper Egypt. It is just 63 millimeters long ...

Over time, cinnabar washed away from rainfall and seeped into the surrounding soil and water. But while a contaminant like ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of chiton, an ancient marine mollusk that has remained virtually unchanged for the ...

A resurrected ancient enzyme is helping scientists test how reliably Earth’s oldest rocks record signs of life.

The fossilised bones of our ancestors remain silent. So, how can we possibly imagine what our earliest languages sounded like ...