Olive oil is the Swiss army knife of foodstuffs. It can dress salads, sauté vegetables, even grease squeaky hinges. And for ...

A thirty-year scientific partnership between archaeologists and the Kuikuro people, in the Xingu Indigenous Territory in Mato ...

The team analyzed DNA from 225 ancient cat specimens collected across Europe, North Africa, and Anatolia. These were were bones and teeth spanning more than 10,000 years of human history. From these ...

From intricate windcatchers to innovative air channels, ancient engineers mastered natural cooling thousands of years before ...

Centuries-old genetic material can solve historical mysteries, from lost species to what killed Napoleon’s army.

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

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 ...

The burial site was 4,500 years old, but archaeology society members saw enough evidence to believe it was already in use ...

Domestic cats only started appearing in Europe about 2,000 years ago, much later than previously believed, and with a ...

A specially trained algorithm could aid the search for biological activity both on the early Earth and on other worlds.

Researchers have finally assigned a strange 3.4-million-year-old foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, confirming that Lucy’s species wasn’t alone in ancient Ethiopia. This hominin had an opposable big ...

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