For decades it was thought that the family system of the ancient Egyptians was very similar to our own. However, Ph.D.

Created 5,000 years ago, the mysterious color has been found on artworks and artifacts throughout the ancient world. But the ...

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A unique archaeological find has recently expanded our knowledge of Neanderthals' capacity for symbolic thought. The object ...

From the spotted Egyptian Mau to the elegant Turkish Angora, these are the oldest breeds that still exist today ...

The oldest representation of the night sky and our Milky Way galaxy was found in an Egyptian sarcophagus, revealing ancient ...

José Braga and Didier Descouens via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 Paranthropus robustus was a prehistoric, two-legged human relative ... could not recover ancient DNA from them.

ISTANBUL (RNS) — As news filtered out of Egypt on Thursday (May 29) that a court ruling had called for nationalizing an ancient Orthodox ... now the property of the Egyptian state.

When Kevin Hatala asks his students on the first day of class, “What are the characteristics that make us human?” the first response they tend to give is opposable thumbs. “But if you look ...

An ancient Maya site in Belize. Credit: Viv Lynch / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 A new study by Dr. Angelina Locker challenges long-held beliefs about Maya human sacrifices by examining remains from a rural burial ...

Newly sequenced ancient genomes from Yunnan, China, have shed new light on human prehistory in East Asia. In a study published in Science, a research team led by Prof. FU Qiaomei at the Institute ...