In an excerpt from his new book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean explores a weird and wild '90s experiment to replicate ancient ...

Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa ...

Across Egypt and beyond stone surfaces reveal machining marks so precise they raise questions about what tools ancient ...

A new exhibition at Whanganui Regional Museum invites visitors to journey through time to explore the evolution of ancient ...

Plague, leprosy, smallpox and other diseases didn't jump from animals to humans when we thought. Ancient DNA is revealing ...

Mayong Central Museum and Emporium features ancient manuscripts (“mantra puthis”) dating from about the 13th to 19th ...

At Aswan’s quarry, we test the dolerite ball theory where Egypt’s largest obelisk lies unfinished. Could this be how ancient engineers shaped granite?

Traditionally, paleoanthropologists believed that Homo habilis, as the earliest big-brained humans, was responsible for the earliest sites with tools. The idea has been that Homo habilis was the ...

The find, announced by researchers from the State Archaeological Museum in Warsaw working alongside the University of Warsaw's Faculty of Archaeology, has been described as even more significant than ...

Ancient humans living across Southeast Asian islands over 40,000 years ago were building sturdy, seafaring boats with plant ...

The concept of reputation, and who is sharing information, may be the key to recognizing misinformation in the AI era.

Carl Sagan explained the thought process of the ancient Greek scientist Eratosthenes, who determined the circumference of the ...