The Fat Lady of Saliagos (also known as The Naked Lady of Saliagos) is the oldest known Cycladic sculpture. It is a marble ...

A 3,800-year-old clay figure found in Peru may be the oldest Latin American civilization artifact, offering insight into the ...

But the practice of artificially preserving bodies shows up in archaeological records around the world. Now, a new study suggests that mummification dates back much earlier, to some of the first human ...

Some ancient societies in Asia appear to have smoke-dried their dead, effectively mummifying them thousands of years earlier ...

Scientists recently identified the oldest material on Earth: stardust that's 7 billion years old, tucked away in a massive, ...

How old is your food? Before food was a choice, it was a necessity — the bare minimum only eaten and endured in order to ...

While tracing its exact origins may be difficult, wrestling is widely recognized as the oldest sport in the world, having ...

Shifting tides along the coast of the ancient region called Mesopotamia might have spurred the rise of the world’s oldest ...

A small sculpture of two toads, and other water-linked symbols found near the Peruvian city of Caral - once the oldest city on the continent - have helped archaeologists confirm that an ancient ...

A well-known Maya stone carving known as Altar Q, located at the site of Copán in Honduras, may use hand signs to represent ...

Shamahi charts humanity's evolutionary odyssey. We sat down with her to discuss the path of our species out of Africa to ...