The year’s most notable findings also include insights into dog and sheep domestication and a new species of manta ray in the ...

Scientists discover Bronze Age plague DNA in 4,000-year-old sheep remains, shedding light on how ancient diseases spread ...

Scientists have uncovered ancient wolf remains on a small Baltic island where wolves could only have been brought by humans.

An archaeological team has uncovered for the first time more than half of the temple, long buried under River Nile sediment.

In a Caribbean cave, researchers discovered hundreds of fossils with bee nests within them. It is the first time this behavior has been recorded, a new study finds.

Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, often described as the West's first scientist, believed the whole Earth was suspended on ...

History is filled with powerful empires that seemed invincible until they weren't. Between roughly 1250 and 1150 BCE, major ...

Young Earth was a blue planet covered in oceans, much like today. But the atmosphere was a lethal cocktail of gases, with no ...

For decades, research and understanding of the diverse bone raw material used by the Late Prehispanic Period (~1220 to 330 ...

Bees are frequently associated with large queen-serving colonies featuring hundreds if not thousands of insects. In actuality, that’s usually not the case. “Most bees are solitary. They lay their eggs ...

In ancient Judaism and early Christianity, angels were portrayed as powerful beings who guarded the Garden of Eden, ...

There were different types of parties in ancient Greece. Not all involved alcohol and debauchery. Some featured intellectual ...