While slaves in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii were considered no more than "speaking tools", some received better food ...

Cornwall has several stone circles, and as many as 800 sit across the United Kingdom, remnants of prehistoric people who ...

The royal symbol on the newly discovered figurines solves a long-standing mystery by identifying who was buried in the ...

Archaeologists in Hungary have uncovered a 1,300-year-old warrior’s tomb containing one of only about 80 known Avar sabers, a ...

"Some of our ancestors were very skilled observers." A team of international researchers say they've uncovered new data on ...

There were 22 gold objects, in addition to other impressive grave goods, buried with the deceased, indicating they were ...

After theorizing on the fossilized bird’s cause of death, the paleontologists decided on the new species’ name: Chromeornis ...

Based on genetic material preserved in birch bark tar from Estonia, researchers found that the teen likely had brown hair and ...

Plant species mentioned in texts from the past 800 years hint the wooded grasslands of western India have been there since ...

Wisconsin Historical Society experts identified 16 dugout canoes in Lake Mendota, including the oldest recorded canoe from ...

The extinct rhinoceros, described in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, is the northernmost rhino known to have ever ...

Earth's atmosphere might have contributed to the origin of life more than previously thought. In a study published in the ...