Beneath the shifting waters of Alexandria's eastern harbor, on Egypt's Mediterranean coast, lie the drowned remnants of a ...

Trapped gases in 1.4 billion-year-old salt crystals reveal ancient secrets about oxygen and carbon dioxide levels on early ...

An ancient woman thought to have hailed from sub-Saharan Africa and therefore to have been the first known Black Briton actually had fairer skin and was from southern England, researchers using new ...

The Sverris Saga, written in the 12th century, describes King Sverre’s rise to power and his conflict with the Baglers. The ...

Chicken bones found by Archaeologists, determined the exact date of the destruction of the Greek city of Scythopolis located in Israel.

For instance, fish-shaped stones dominate the highest elevations, near natural springs fed by melting snow. Whereas ...

The curious skeleton of a Roman-era individual in Britain, nicknamed the Beachy Head Woman, is not who we thought she was.

Scientists have long been trying to reconstruct the appearance of dinosaurs. The tidbits they are able to piece together from ...

Cats were domesticated in North Africa, but spread to Europe only about 2,000 years ago. Earlier reports of “house” cats were ...

For the first time, scientists have analyzed metabolism-related molecules from the fossilized bones of animals that lived 1.3 to 3 million years ago ...

The study bolsters one hypothesis of when people arrived at the landmass that became Australia and other islands, and ...

Researchers reconstructed the genetic and social structure of a Protoapennine community from Bronze Age Italy using ancient ...