Why it matters: While not evidence of life, these discoveries show that ancient Mars had complex organic chemistry, ...

The inscriptions show that people from different parts of India interacted with Greeks and Egyptians in Egypt in the 1st-3rd centuries AD ...

An international team of archaeologists and scientists has reconstructed the diets of prehistoric communities from north-central Poland, shedding new light on how people adapted to changing ...

The little-known ancient Greek city of Europos has started to unveil its secrets in a new wave of excavations that started in 2020.

The exhibit runs through June 7 at the Cranbrook Institute of Science.

Instead of depicting the Trojan War from Homer’s “Iliad” as originally deduced, the mosaic may be of the same conflict in Aeschylus’ “Phrygians.” ...

Ancient Handprints in an Indonesian Cave Reveal Surprising New Clues About Early Humans ...

The secret to regenerative life lies not in an ancient scroll or lost text, but could instead be found in a tiny jellyfish on the ocean floor, no bigger than an ant. The ...

A team of paleontologists led by Chinese scientists has discovered the first known evidence of a bone tumor in a lizard preserved in Cretaceous-period amber, shedding new light on the prevalence of ...

The solution: helping the dough rise using fermented spinach juice. Ancient grains such as einkorn and spelt, widely ...

The symbols, discovered on 40,000-year-old artifacts in caves in southwest Germany, may have been a precursor to the first written language ...

Sculptures and tools from the Stone Age show markings that could be an early precursor to written language, according to a new analysis.