The Serapeum holds massive stone boxes that display signs of advanced machining, raising questions about the technology used by ancient Egyptians.

With the help of newly identified bones, an enigmatic 3.4-million-year-old hominin foot found in 2009, is assigned to a ...

National Institute of Technology—Wakayama College (NITW; Japan), and Shimane University (Japan) present the largest ...

Researchers have unearthed a remarkably well-preserved ancient relic in Japan, dating back over 10,000 years.

Traces of a previously unknown group of people, genetically distinct from their neighbors, have persisted for at least 8,000 ...

Agency says it may have found signs of life on the Red Planet Mars during a press conference about comet 3I/ATLAS ...

As the archaeological finds point toward a sophisticated method of deep-ocean fishing, the study authors believe the ancient ...

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

Scientists have developed a new way to hunt for hidden signals of past life, and say it could assist in the search for ...

Scientists have extracted the oldest RNA molecules out of a woolly mammoth, gaining a snapshot into the processes at work in the extinct mammal's body just before it died.

MIT researchers adapted X-ray CT scanning from the medical field to study slag waste produced as a byproduct of ancient copper smelting.

Our ancient primate relatives—including Neanderthals—may have enjoyed a nice peck on the lips. But researchers still don’t ...