George Washington University archaeologist David Braun and his colleagues recently unearthed stone tools from a 2.75 ...

Before 2.75 million years ago, the Namorotukunan area featured lush wetlands with abundant palms and sedges, with mean annual precipitation reaching approximately 855 millimeters per year. However, ...

Back in the day, Ancient Mesopotamia was the place to be. Considering the geographical area of some of humanity’s most ...

When rolled on a moist clay tablet, these engravings left low-relief markings, signifying that the object's owner authorized ...

A recently published study in PLOS ONE is reshaping scientific understanding of the rise of urban civilization in ancient ...

They explained the larger stakes of the controversy, which, beyond the invention of the alphabet, involved nothing less than the direction of the development of Western civilization itself, whether ...

For generations, scientists believed that the West Coast’s two great earthquake engines — the Cascadia subduction zone and ...

"Now, we have all sorts of products available to us 365 days a year, flown/shipped in from around the world. The downside is ...

PHOENIX – Arizona State University’s SolarSPELL (Solar Powered Educational Learning Library) initiative works to bring solar-powered literary devices to rural communities around the world to increase ...