A newly identified crocodile relative from Egypt pushes back the origins of the marine-hunting dyrosaurids by millions of years. The fossil, Wadisuchus kassabi, shows a mix of primitive and advanced ...

Some of the ancient buildings, located along China’s mountaintop rivers, dated back to as far as 2800 B.C.E., with others ...

From the Library of Alexandria to the lost works of Plato, the world is littered with ancient writings containing long-lost ...

An investigation into the evidence for ancient high technology found across the world. We look into the evidence for ...

A Europe-focused study published in the journal Science examined 87 ancient and modern cat genomes and found that the domestic cat, which has the scientific name Felis catus, originated in North ...

Through cutting-edge forensic science and ancient DNA analysis, scientists have solved one of medieval Europe's most enduring archaeological mysteries. The victim, Duke Béla of Macsó, was a member of ...

Most of them come from a subset of viruses called retroviruses, which infect host cells and then trick them into making the ...

For decades, archaeologists believed that cats first started living alongside early farming communities in the Levant — covering parts of today’s Middle East and eastern Mediterranean — around 9,500 ...

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

The people of ancient Rome didn’t have access to modern science, but they still developed complex – and incredibly intuitive ...

In the earliest text written in Marathi, a language of millions in western and central India, a 13th-century religious figure ...