Paleolithic tools found at the Namorotukunan site in Kenya suggest that early Homo species kept their technology going even through natural disasters.

Modern technology, new excavations and curious amateurs have helped unearth some of the world's greatest treasures in the last 50 years.

Centuries-old genetic material can solve historical mysteries, from lost species to what killed Napoleon’s army.

Traces of a previously unknown group of people, genetically distinct from their neighbors, have persisted for at least 8,000 ...

Cornell researchers have found that a new DNA sequencing technology can be used to study how transposons move within and bind ...

New research suggests that the holes were the site of an ancient marketplace, and Inca rulers may have used them as a ...

Stone tool analysis of sites in Southeast Asia provided evidence that the area was a technological leader in seafaring. Archaeology supports that 40,000 years ago, the people living in Southeast Asia ...

From mysterious gears to precision tools, the British Museum holds artifacts that don’t quite fit the timeline. Are these traces of lost engineering—or are we missing something? Rupert Murdoch warns ...

NASA has announced the discovery of potential signs of ancient life on Mars. The revelation came during a press conference ...

Washington, DC— Pairing cutting-edge chemistry with artificial intelligence, a multidisciplinary team of scientists found ...

Scientists have extracted the oldest RNA molecules out of a woolly mammoth, gaining a snapshot into the processes at work in ...

Archaeologists are uncovering toolkits and watercraft that do not sit neatly inside the familiar story of slow, linear progress from scattered foragers to settled farmers. Instead, these finds hint at ...