Tube drill cores found in Egypt show smooth, continuous spiral grooves that indicate extreme pressure and control.

Some people in Ukraine weathered the harshest moments of the last ice age by creating shelters made partly of mammoth bones and tusks.

Chinese archaeologists have uncovered a significant Paleolithic site at an unprecedented altitude of 4,300 meters on the ...

Humans were isolated in southern Africa for about 100,000 years, which caused them to "fall outside the range of genetic variation" seen in modern-day people, a new genetic study reveals. The finding ...

CHENGDU -- Chinese archaeologists have uncovered a significant Paleolithic site at an unprecedented altitude on the eastern ...

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Despite sitting on the seafloor two millennia off the coast of Alexandria, still visible on the boat’s timber was graffiti ...

A Bronze Age burial in central Germany has jolted archaeologists and captivated the public, not because of treasure or royal ...

A groundbreaking genetic study has revealed that Italians who reach 100 carry significantly more ancient Western hunter-gatherer DNA than their younger counterparts. The research, published in ...

The genetic evidence is consistent with a father-daughter union, making it one of the clearest and earliest documented cases of such extreme parental consanguinity in the archaeological record.

The victims of the Pompeii eruption wore heavy wool cloaks and tunics, suggesting different environmental conditions in summer. (University of Valencia) ...