With the help of newly identified bones, an enigmatic 3.4-million-year-old hominin foot found in 2009, is assigned to a ...

The Serapeum holds massive stone boxes that display signs of advanced machining, raising questions about the technology used by ancient Egyptians.

Researchers have unearthed a remarkably well-preserved ancient relic in Japan, dating back over 10,000 years.

National Institute of Technology—Wakayama College (NITW; Japan), and Shimane University (Japan) present the largest ...

This year, the Rio Grande ran dry in Albuquerque. The conservation techniques students are learning will be key to the region ...

Traces of a previously unknown group of people, genetically distinct from their neighbors, have persisted for at least 8,000 ...

Stone tool analysis of sites in Southeast Asia provided evidence that the area was a technological leader in seafaring. Archaeology supports that 40,000 years ago, the people living in Southeast Asia ...

Washington, DC— Pairing cutting-edge chemistry with artificial intelligence, a multidisciplinary team of scientists found ...

Scientists have extracted the oldest RNA molecules out of a woolly mammoth, gaining a snapshot into the processes at work in ...

Scientists have developed a new way to hunt for hidden signals of past life, and say it could assist in the search for ...

Archaeologists are uncovering toolkits and watercraft that do not sit neatly inside the familiar story of slow, linear progress from scattered foragers to settled farmers. Instead, these finds hint at ...