For the first time, scientists have reconstructed the full history of a galaxy outside the Milky Way using chemical clues. By ...

While the weather is cold now, the United Nations Weather Agency is warning of recording the hottest decade ever.

A Roman necropolis with more than 3,000 tombs has been uncovered beneath Zadar, Croatia, revealing centuries of burial ...

Analyzing samples of mummies from different dynastic periods showed how the mixtures of substances used in mummification ...

The Neanderthal population shrank during a cold spell around 75,000 years ago, and the loss of genetic diversity may have ...

Over the past two decades, more than 43,000 inscribed shards of pottery known as ostraca have been uncovered in Athribis, ...

A new analysis of the Monte Verde archaeological site in Chile redates it as much younger than thought, reopening the "Clovis ...

A team of astronomers led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian have for the first time used galactic ...

Beneath a leaden sky in a municipal cemetery, relatives of Eduardo Ramos and Alicia Cerrotta carry the two urns containing ...

Goats tell us how human values changed through time by showing how and where we moved animals through trade or migration.

In 1972, a young excavator operator working near Varna noticed something glittering in the dirt. He pulled out a bracelet, ...

Credit: Geología Valdivia New findings from Chile challenge a foundational idea about the earliest settlement of the Americas ...