Ancient DNA shows Doggerland beneath the North Sea supported forests and wildlife 16,000 years ago, revealing a milder Ice Age refuge.

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The dust-covered relic emerges from the earth, promising to rewrite history books and challenge everything we thought we knew ...

Cocaine didn't make its way across the Atlantic until after the Spanish invaded. So how did cocaine end up being found on ...

A new study shows how humans moved across the landscapes of ancient Greece, shaped by slope, visibility, and rugged terrain.

Three leaves had been missing for more than a century. Researchers found one of them when they decided on a whim to check the archives of a French museum ...

On 11 March, a joint Egyptian-German archaeological mission uncovered approximately 13,000 inscribed pottery fragments, known as ostraca, at the ancient site of Athribis located in Sohag Gov ...

For the first time, scientists have used DNA preserved in ancient sediments to examine how a major natural disaster affected ...

I’ve never quite understood why tourists can’t help but write things like, “Gayoung was here.” But archaeological records ...

Explore Pennsylvania’s ancient treasures that offer a glimpse into the past and will captivate history enthusiasts.

A new interpretation of a 3,500-year-old medical text from Egypt suggests that ancient physicians might have bathed patients' eyeballs in human breast milk to treat certain ophthalmic conditions. And ...