In A Nutshell A tiny, 250-million-year-old fossil from South Africa offers the first compelling evidence that an ancient ...

For more than a century, researchers have documented physical evidence in Egypt that does not match the tools officially attributed to the ancient builders. Precision stonework, unexplained drill ...

In 89 BCE, Rome dispatched forces under the command of general Lucius Cornelius Sulla to lay siege to the city. It was one of ...

The research team dates the discovery to Egypt’s Reunification Period, between 2040 and 1700 B.C., suggesting that ...

THE history of human occupation in the Philippines is being fundamentally rewritten as researchers move beyond the idea of ...

With artificial intelligence (AI) as an essential tool, San Diego State University researchers have discovered surprising similarities among ancient writing systems from Africa and the Caucasus region ...

(Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) A strange chunk of metal that lay hidden in the soil for thousands of years ...

Recent analysis of the Shroud of Turin has uncovered genetic material from Indian descent, suggesting complex historical ...

The findings could play a crucial role in protecting future astronauts from dangerous radiation during deep space missions like Nasa's Artemis programme.

A new study reveals that the fossil once thought to be the world's oldest octopus is, in fact, a distant relative of the ...

In what looks like a pile of rocks in Shark Bay, UNSW scientists have discovered a hidden clue to how the ancestors of plants ...

An artistic reconstruction of the deathbed of Pohlsepia mazonensis, 300 million years ago. (Franz Anthony/Clements et al., ...