A newly excavated cave in Israel holds burials and artifacts suggesting that multiple human species commingled and shared ...

An ancient Egyptian woman thought to have been pregnant and dying of cancer was actually just embalmed with a technique that ...

Roughly 8,000-year-old remains unearthed from present-day Tunisia held a surprise: European hunter-gatherer ancestry ...

COPENHAGEN: Science has already proven that sculptures from ancient Greece and Rome were often painted in warm colours, and now a Danish study has revealed that some were also perfumed.

How and when domestic cats arrived in China has been a mystery. A new analysis of cat DNA suggests traders and diplomats ...

The Neolithic period began in southwest Asia around 12,000 years ago. It marked a major shift in human history as societies ...

Mummy aroma may provide insight into social class and historical period, according to a team of trained mummy sniffers ...

A painstaking study of an archaeology site in western Honduras showed just how far back the avocado has been farmed.

This discovery contradicts the prevailing notion about El Salvador’s cultural backwardness or isolation in the ancient times, ...

A study from the Ateneo de Manila University reveals that ancient Filipinos mastered deep-sea fishing and seafaring 40,000 ...