When we picture the history of money, many imagine barter leading naturally to coins, then paper bills, then cards and ...

The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.

Palaspata temple linked to the Tiwanaku empire has been discovered in Bolivia, an archaeological find that redefines Andean political.

Reexamining the Greek alphabet, Herodotus’ story of Phoenician origins may obscure earlier Linear B writing on palm leaves.

(Reuters) -In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China's Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during ...

A new model uncovers how Earth’s liquid core has sustained its magnetic field since the planet’s beginnings, offering new ...

He lived hundreds of thousands of years ago, eking out an existence in what is today central China. Sporting a squat neck and ...

Digital reconstruction of a partially crushed skull suggests new insight into Homo sapiens’ evolutionary relationship to Denisovans and Neandertals.

Earth was not always the blue-green world we know today: early Earth's oxygen levels were about a million times lower than we ...

New research indicates that the Gobi Wall, which snakes through Inner Mongolia, was not a purely defensive structure.

Led by paleoanthropologist Professor Chris Stringer from London’s Natural History Museum, the team originally believed the skull to be an earlier ancestor of humanity, named Homo erectus, because it ...

Ancient poop fossils preserved molecules thanks to iron carbonate, revealing hidden details of prehistoric ecosystems.