Across Egypt and beyond stone surfaces reveal machining marks so precise they raise questions about what tools ancient builders really had.

Scholars were wrong about prehistoric Sicily. Davide Tanasi, a professor at the University of South Florida, has new evidence ...

Archaeologists found a 30,000-year-old ancient toolkit in Czech Republic. The tools reveal hunting, recycling, and survival skills.

One of the longest ancient Roman aqueducts in the Mediterranean is preserved in excellent condition in Heraklion, capital of ...

But the gap between fantasy and reality has narrowed dramatically when it comes to what we know of China’s tyrannical first ...

"The results reported here can be crucial when down-selecting which samples, if not all, are returned to Earth." ...

The skeleton, known as TBH1, had a rib injury thought to be caused by a sharp projectile and eventually succumbed to ...

Biblical archaeologists are using ancient texts and modern technology to uncover possible clues to one of Christianity's ...

During her hunt for the Egyptian queen’s lost tomb, National Geographic Explorer Kathleen Martínez uncovered the sunken ...

In its youth, the dwarf planet Ceres may have brewed a chemical banquet beneath its icy crust.

After analyzing a ceramic lamp unearthed from a Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) tomb in North ­China's Shanxi Province, researchers ...

In a scientific breakthrough with cosmic implications, researchers have, for the first time, precisely dated the emergence of ...