Archaeologists discovered ancient docks and artifacts from a submerged 2,000-year-old city believed to be an extension of ...

Fossilized teeth show that two different kinds of ancient human ancestors coexisted more than 2 million years ago. One of ...

Noh was once the entertainment of medieval warriors. Today, remote Sado Islanders embrace one of the world’s oldest surviving ...

A newly discovered 460-million-year-old trilobite showed signs of being shaped and flattened—the first indication that ancient Romans purposely collected and modified the tiny fossils.

For some cultures, the practice of cranial deformation may have offered individuals a path to privilege later in their lives.

A Kenyan site shows early hominids transported stone 13 kilometers for toolmaking as early as 2.6 million years ago.

Finding ancient artifacts is always a big deal for researchers, but some things are more important than others, and ...

Once dismissed as “junk” DNA, ancient viruses embedded in the human genome play a key role in early human development, ...