For over a decade, the Denisovans were anthropology's most mysterious cousins — a ghost line whose existence was known almost solely from ancient DNA, a child's pinky bone, and a rumor of genes that s ...

What they discovered was a tipping point at about 70,000 years ago: humans began to migrate to tropical rainforests in West and Central Africa, dry deserts such as the Sahara, and regions with extreme ...

A sequence of footprints hidden deep within a long-dried paleo‑lake bed were discovered in 2021 by archaeologists, pushing back the purported arrival of early North American settlers between 23,000 an ...

Following over two decades of research, scientists at the Australian National Maritime Museum have asserted in no uncertain terms that they've located one of the most famous ships of maritime history ...

Travel back 20,000 years into the last Ice Age, to a time when the upper reaches of the Blue Mountains were treeless and the ridgelines and mountain peaks laden in snow and ice.At an elevation of 1,07 ...

“Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans” (Iliad, Robert Fagles’ ...

Archaeologists excavating the ancient Roman fort of Magna, near Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland, England, have uncovered a remarkable personal artifact: a nearly complete Roman leather shoe measuring ...

Conor Trainor for The ConversationBefore artificial sweeteners, people satisfied their cravings for sweetness with natural ...

About 6,200 years ago, in a village on the northern rim of the Persian Gulf, a young woman died after being struck on the head. She was probably younger than 20.

AD 312, the fate of the future of the Roman world was decided near the Pons Milvius, the Milvian Bridge (the modern Ponte ...

On the dark, chilly bottom of the sea off the coast of Ramatuelle, France, early in March 2025, a French Navy drone swept the silt with its sonar beam — a form, large and out of context, 2.5 kms (1.59 ...

For decades it was thought that the family system of the ancient Egyptians was very similar to our own. However, Ph.D. candidate Steffie van Gompel explains that the reality is somewhat different.