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Dramatic new discoveries in the ancient Egytptian burial ground ... Inside, Youssef and his colleagues found signs that the people buried here had wealth and privilege: gilded masks, a finely ...

Additionally, ancient humans may have ramped up their use of ochre. This naturally occurring pigment is composed of iron ...

In a study published in the journal PNAS, researchers compared house size distributions from more than 1,000 sites around the ...

Two Temple Place is rammed. Arriving on a Tuesday morning, visitors are met with a queue that snakes down a gravel path ...

We're living in a period where the gap between rich and poor is dramatic, and it's continuing to widen. But inequality is nothing new. In a new study researchers compared house size distributions from ...

Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious ... were used in the very center of Tikal, involving people who used utterly foreign, Teotihuacan painting styles ...

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

A new explanation has emerged for why Homo sapiens survived in Europe and North Asia when the apparently better-adapted ...

In The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, science writer Henry Gee considers how long we’ve got, and how we can extend our ...