Archaeologists in West Texas have made an astonishing discovery which sheds light on the lives of prehistoric humans in ...

The emergence of the Sea Peoples in the Late Bronze Age during a period of massive upheaval remains a mystery.

New discoveries shed light on an ancient human species and its evolutionary links to modern humans. Stephen Chester, ...

Hundreds of once-missing artifacts, hunted down over decades by a special Italian police unit, have been unveiled for the ...

The passage of time has done nothing to diminish Pompeii's capacity to shock. With ossified bodies and filthy paintings ...

Ancient rhinos lived in tight-knit herds and died together at Nebraska’s Ashfall Fossil Beds, study of teeth reveals ...

In her right hand, the female figure holds laurel leaves, which Roman priestesses and priests once used to purify spaces.

Entombed at the Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park, teeth from the rhino fossils were analyzed by researchers at the ...

Researchers say a fossil jawbone discovered in Taiwan belonged to an enigmatic group of early human ancestors.

Rhinos that flourished across much of North America 12 million years ago gathered in huge herds, according to a new study.

Fresh advances in 3D scanning technology are making it possible to explore some of the hardest-to-reach and most fragile ...

While excavating the ruins of Pompeii, the ancient Roman city destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., ...