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 ...
Two recent studies have cast doubt on a popular theory that the ancient residents of Easter Island suffered a societal ...
A timeline of 485 million years of Earth’s surface temperatures shows ancient greenhouse conditions were hotter than scientists thought.
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 ...
One of the most significant recent discoveries was in the Aktogay cave, located in the Karatau Mountains in southern ...
A team of researchers from the University of Cape Town (South Africa) and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary ...
The modern West traces its heritage to Greece and Rome, societies that themselves owed a debt to the cultures that preceded ...
Horses were the primary means of locomotion for travel, communication, agriculture, and warfare across much of the ancient ...
Studies will continue at the cave systems to identify preindustrial sea levels and examine the impact of global warming.
DNA analysis shows that people from Easter Island had contact with Indigenous Americans around the 1300s, and finds there was ...
Researchers analyzed human remains from the Oakhurst rock shelter in southernmost Africa and reconstructed the genomes of ...