According to a Live Science report, declining rainfall and a volcanic eruption some 50,000 years ago may have led to the extinction of Homo floresiensis. This small hominin, also called a "hobbit," is ...

In May 1562, Diego de Landa, the highest-ranking Catholic authority in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, received word that a large number of idols, along with human bones and deer meat, had been discovered ...

A rock shelter known as Spirit Cave overlooks Nevada’s Lahontan Basin. A burial discovered there held a man whose mummified remains are the oldest known in the world. Genetic testing has established ...

A 13th-century limestone sundial is one of the earliest timekeeping devices discovered in Egypt Recording the passage of time is a fundamental human activity, whether by turning the pages of a ...

A hearth dated to 400,000 years ago has been unearthed near the village of Barnham in eastern England, CNN reports.

Excavations in northern Greece are revealing the world that shaped the future king One October morning in 336 B.C., the small theater at Aigai, the ceremonial center of ancient Macedonia, began to ...

A sculpture known as the Hell Mouth is one of several dozen fantastical creations dating to the sixteenth century that line the paths of a park called the Sacro Bosco, or Sacred Wood, near the central ...

According to a ZME Science report, a genetic study led by Zhang Xiaoming of the Kunming Institute of Zoology has linked the modern Bo people living in the mountains of southwestern China with ...

At the same time that artists began to depict demons in Middle Kingdom (ca. 2030–1640 B.C.) tombs, carvings of these beasts also appeared on a type of artifact Egyptologists have dubbed “magic wands.” ...

A fanciful 19th-century retreat sits on an island known as the Rock in Lough Key, in County Roscommon. Beneath the building lie the remains of a castle belonging to the MacDermots, one of medieval ...

When it was built nearly 5,000 years ago, the Great Pyramid of Giza was the tallest structure in the world, a title it would retain for more than 3,500 years, until it was surpassed by several of ...

The Native American perspective on a notorious chapter in American history is being revealed by the excavation and study of a pioneer campsite The Native American perspective on a notorious chapter in ...