French senators on Wednesday adopted a bill to simplify the return of artworks looted during the colonial era to their ...

Jemima McPhee receives funding from an Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarship. Ancient scientists can be easy to dismiss. Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, often ...

Our hunter-gatherer ancestors have given us many things. They passed down mastery of fire for cooking and early survival technologies, such as stone tools. They may also have given us the secret to a ...

Set aside your matches or lighter and try to start a fire—chances are you’d be left cold and hungry. But as early as 400,000 years ago, ancient hominins may have had the skills to conjure flame, ...

Each Arc Raiders map has a few intriguing puzzles to figure out, and they'll usually provide you with some nice loot for solving them. For instance, if you've come across the Ancient Fort POI on the ...

Archaeologists recently found a massive stone basin in Italy dating back more than 2,000 years — remnants of a once-powerful rival of Rome. The discovery was found in the ancient ruins of Gabii, about ...

This tiny fragment belied a find of Biblical proportions. Archaeologists in Jerusalem have unearthed a 2,700-year-old Assyrian inscription in clay that could shine a light on key events detailed in ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

A study of genomes from ancient Siberian people shows genetic linkages with people living in Estonia, Finland and Hungary today. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...