Earth's earliest life left behind very few chemical traces. Fragile remains, like ancient cells and microbial mats, were ...

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

A new book, Goliath’s Curse, will reset everything you thought you knew about the rise and fall of civilisations – with ...

Ancient Lost Worlds and Hidden History. On location videos made by author and adventurer Brien Foerster exploring Peru, ...

Evidence from ancient quarries shows advanced techniques that suggest a lost high-tech civilization may have been responsible ...

HANGZHOU -- New DNA analysis of soil sediments from a Song Dynasty (960-1279) shipwreck unearthed along the shore of Wenzhou city in East China's Zhejiang province has revealed that yams were once ...

Teasing out biochemical information from ancient organic-rich sediments, notably the timing of the emergence of ...

China is harnessing cutting-edge science and technology to preserve and study its rich cultural heritage, with national research bases leading groundbreaking work in fields ranging from ancient mural ...

A new study led by the University of Oxford has found evidence that kissing evolved in the common ancestor of humans and ...

About 5,000 years ago, people living in what is now Iran began extracting copper from rock by processing ore, an activity ...

New research published in Antiquity reveals the first scientific evidence that Peru’s puzzling “Band of Holes” — once ...

Scientists have detected signatures in ancient rocks that push back the timeframe for the discovery of early life by billions of years.