A timeline of 485 million years of Earth’s surface temperatures shows ancient greenhouse conditions were hotter than scientists thought.

Two recent studies have cast doubt on a popular theory that the ancient residents of Easter Island suffered a societal ...

The modern West traces its heritage to Greece and Rome, societies that themselves owed a debt to the cultures that preceded ...

A construction project at San Pedro High School in Los Angeles revealed nearly 9-million-year-old sea creature fossils buried ...

Horses were the primary means of locomotion for travel, communication, agriculture, and warfare across much of the ancient ...

An ancient building in modern-day Syria has long been considered an example of what is known as a domestic “house church.” But a new study challenges this idea. Since its discovery by modern ...

In June 2023, an archaeological find in the Peloponnese rewrote ancient Greek history, in one of the most sensational ...

Studies will continue at the cave systems to identify preindustrial sea levels and examine the impact of global warming.

In the southern Pacific Ocean, far off the coast of Chile, lies the remote island of Rapa Nui, or Easter Island. Since the ...

Ancient DNA has provided spectacular insights into human history, particularly in Europe and Asia, where researchers have reconstructed the genomes of thousands of people. However, fewer than two ...