The lack of oxygen in the ice prevents the formation of bacteria, and can mean that some of the objects can appear almost new ...

A 700,000-year-old elephant tooth offers new insights into a prehistoric landscape rich in water, vegetation, and wildlife ...

Eighteen of 46 skulls from subsidiary burials at Abydos showed potentially lethal injuries inflicted near the time of death.

And with a new direct flight making it easier to swap a crowded European summer for the Indian Ocean, there’s never been a ...

The Pomona Natural Bridge in Pomona, Illinois is one of those places that makes you question everything you thought you knew ...

More than 40,000 years ago, bands of Neanderthals turned a spacious rock shelter in the mountains of Spain into a cozy home, ...

Neanderthals might be famous for their use of sophisticated stone tools, but new evidence suggests that they were also ...

Forensic research has identified deliberate and fatal wounds on skulls from simple grave sites near First Dynasty royal tombs ...

A chopping wound above the eye and more carnage solve a mystery that stumped archeologists for a century.

For decades, scholars have argued over whether ancient Egyptians killed people to bury them beside a king. The archaeologist who dug up the best evidence thought so, yet he couldn’t find a single ...

Recent genetic evidence suggests that our Stone Age brains have evolved since the Neolithic began, and that they're evolving ...

Its 19-lines of ancient Greek text is written in red ink, dedicated to a person named "Pesikhtis," who, according to ...