A Massachusetts highland games competition is bringing the spirit of ancient Celtic strongman contests to the modern day, ...

From the pyramids of Egypt to the jungle-choked ruins of Angkor Wat, from the magical desert capital of the Nabateans in ...

There are few industries with a more “old world” feel than European insurers. The average age among the continent’s 10 ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has ...

A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that forests in many parts of the ...

In Kutaisi, Georgia, Imeretians still forage in nature for the ingredients that compose their colorful, vegetarian-friendly ...

Ancient DNA has revealed links between the cultures of Egypt and Mesopotamia. Researchers sequenced whole genomes from the ...

Experts say they hope that pottery found in the same soil layers as the footwear could help them solve the mystery.

For the first time, scientists have sequenced the oldest and complete DNA set of an ancient Egyptian man, dating to when the ...

The 300,000 year-old tools show that hominins in East Asia made planned foraging trips to lakeshores and designed instruments ...