President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi warmly welcomed the distinguished guests of Egypt and the Egyptian people, in a speech, which ...

DNA shines a light back into the past, showing us things that fossils can't. But how far back can that light extend? Some of the oldest DNA sequences come from mastodon and polar bear fossils about 50 ...

In Louisiana, hunter-gatherers of the Evans culture built Watson Brake, a massive complex of 11 mounds connected by ridges, ...

India’s history is undeniably ancient, with the Indus Valley Civilization, Vedic period, and later empires forming the ...

The great civilizations of the ancient Americas were incredibly active and productive, and new evidence of their industriousness and ambition has been discovered at a well-known archaeological hot ...

In a remarkable find that deepens our understanding of one of the world’s oldest civilizations, archaeologists working at the Era de Pando archaeological site in Peru’s Supe Valley have uncovered a ...

João Marinho Neto's milestone came months after he celebrated the world’s oldest person, Ethel Caterham, on her 116th birthday Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

Around 3400 BC, the Sumerians, the world’s oldest known civilization, first cultivated the opium poppy in lower Mesopotamia, calling it Hul Gil, or the ‘joy plant.’ Harvested for its milk-like sap, ...

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (WBOY) — This weekend, the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) stopped in Clarksburg, West Virginia, to recognize the life of Francis Dalton, also known as the oldest known miner ...

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (WBOY) — This weekend, the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) stopped in Clarksburg, West Virginia, to recognize the life of Francis Dalton, also known as the oldest known miner ...