This community of microorganisms holds the answer to a longstanding scientific mystery, according to the researchers.

A 1,500-year-old geometric mosaic with a heart-shaped ivy leaf was uncovered in ancient Smyrna, one of the seven churches in ...

We all have bits of DNA from a long-lost “ghost ancestor” inside us – and by putting all the different bits together, we ...

It’s only relatively recently,” she added, “that archaeology has turned its attention” to the daily lives of women and other ...

The math doesn’t add up—and new evidence suggests humans were crossing open oceans tens of thousands of years earlier than we ...

Thirty giant lobster sculptures have arrived in Pompeii as British pop artist Philip Colbert unveils his largest-ever ...

A newly identified fossil ape from northern Egypt is reshaping ideas about where the ancestors of modern apes first emerged.

The geometric earthwork structures, carved into the ground with embankments and ditches, are in some cases more than 2,500 years old, researchers said.

Scientists have found smallpox viruses in the remains of people in Chile from around 500 years ago, revealing how the virus ...

The Pythagorean Cup, an invention from ancient Greece, shows that Greek heads weren't in the intellectual clouds all the time ...

In Norway’s highest mountains, experts are scouring perilous terrain for pieces of the past, long stored in mint condition in ice patches. As temperatures rise across the world, glacial archaeologists ...