A new radiocarbon study has clarified the timing of the colossal Thera eruption, placing it before Egypt’s New Kingdom.
Clues from a digital reconstruction of a lavish ancient home are changing how researchers understand Pompeii’s elite.
Harvard scientist Avi Loeb claims the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS may be alien technology sent to seed life on Earth, ...
The area around Boeslunde had already yielded 10 gold oath rings and approximately 2,200 gold spirals in previous excavations. Museum director and archaeologist Lone Claudi-Hansen explained their ...
Researchers say this ‘climate-famine-grain’ connection may help explain the timing of other plague outbreaks throughout ...
A new ancient DNA study argues that the familiar house cat is a relative latecomer, carried from North Africa into Europe ...
How life began on Earth is one of the biggest remaining questions in science. Now, NASA has taken a major step towards ...
Stunning concentric rings in Libya's Sahara Desert, Jabal Arkanū, were formed by ancient volcanic activity and millions of ...
Bennu asteroid samples returned by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission reveal life's building blocks, including sugars like ribose and ...
Suspending coffins on sheer cliffs is a mysterious and 3,000-year-old burial tradition. New genetic evidence shows how it may ...
Learn how genomes from 28 ancient individuals show that Homo sapiens lived in southern Africa in near isolation for hundreds ...
The fossil and genetic evidence agree that modern humans originated in Africa. The most genetically diverse human populations ...