Oryza rufipogon is an ordinary-looking wild grass found today in parts of China, India and Southeast Asia. More than 8,000 ...

One of the unresolved mysteries about the history of the Americas is when the first people arrived. Despite extensive debate ...

As archaeologists work to uncover more about how our ancestors lived, ancient cooking methods are also being excavated — ...

For decades, the sticky black tar that Neanderthals cooked out of birch bark has been filed away in the archaeological literature as prehistoric glue. A new round of laboratory experiments suggests ...

A 700,000-year-old elephant tooth offers new insights into a prehistoric landscape rich in water, vegetation, and wildlife ...

Almost every book that survives from the ancient world does so because somebody copied it by hand. But one Roman library ...

The Pyramids of Giza and the Great Sphinx might be Egypt’s superstars, but look beyond them and you’ll find intriguing myths, a warm modern-day culture and a very human side to ancient history—and ...

Mourners living in Cyprus some 3,400 years ago may have burned bouquets of whole plants during burial ceremonies, according to the Greek Reporter. Charred plant remains were found in four tombs at ...

Archaeologists have found the remains of ancient civilizations at sites around the world that may explain how some cultures ...

This image represents one illustration of how the trilobite fossil may have been set as an amulet or pendant. Fernández-Fernández, A., Valle-Abad, P., Rodríguez -Nóvoa, A.A. et al. Significance of ...

In 1900 diver Elias Stadiatis, clad in a copper and brass helmet and a heavy canvas suit, emerged from the sea shaking in fear and mumbling about a “heap of dead naked people.” He was among a group of ...

Deep inside an ice cap in Northwestern Tibet, scientists have found ice dating back to the last ice age. That pushes the ...