A newly reconstructed fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a ...

The fall of the world’s earliest cities has long looked like a riddle of vanished peoples and abandoned streets. A growing ...

Archaeologists from the University of Copenhagen and the University of Bergen have used AI and free digital tools to create a ...

Our hunter-gatherer ancestors have given us many things. They passed down mastery of fire for cooking and early survival ...

Themed "Mutual Learning among Civilizations, Inheritance and Development," the 2025 International Forum on Mutual Learning ...

Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd in Antarctica - the polar explorer whose classified 1947 diary described impossible temperate valleys, disc-shaped aircraft, and warnings from mysterious humanoid figures.

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

These out-of-place artifacts, or OOPArts, are surprising for their place and time — but there's an explanation behind each ...

On a low rise in southeastern Turkey, a ring of carved stone pillars has forced archaeologists to rethink how civilization began. The site, known as Göbekli Tepe, is roughly 12,000 years old, which ...

New research suggests the Indus Valley Civilization was reshaped by centuries of river drought, migration, and climate stress ...

He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his ...

Amongst the most enduring mythical creatures, which were present in so many ancient cultures, are the dragons. Appearing frequently in folklore and tales from China in the east to Europe in the west, ...