The transition to agriculture and a sedentary lifestyle is one of the great turning points in human history. Yet how this ...

Here’s looking at you, kid. I mean, Your Majesty. In the real Casablanca — not the acclaimed 1942 Oscar-winning movie — I soaked like a queen in a rose petal-strewn warm bath at the Art Deco glamorous ...

Genetic analysis of skeletons buried in a Neolithic proto-city in Turkey reveals that female lineages were important in early ...

This seems to have solved the mystery of how the starfish got its arms. But it doesn’t necessarily answer the ‘why’. Imran ...

From South Africa to Morocco, African rock art (etched or painted on rocks) spans thousands of years across the continent ...

Rice is difficult to grow in the Pacific, so how did it end up in a cave? Archaeologists reveal the hidden history of this ...

Using well-preserved ancient DNA, researchers have created a life-like facial reconstruction of a woman who lived in ...

Japanese researchers turned to “experimental archaeology” to study how ancient humans navigated powerful ocean currents and migrated offshore.

Scientists have found genetic evidence of an ancient group of people in Colombia with no modern-day descendants. It’s as if ...

Researchers determined that footprints in White Sands National Park in New Mexico are from the oldest migrants to North ...

Escape the summer heat with affordable July getaways! Explore San Juan's vibrant culture, Reykjavik's stunning landscapes, or ...

Food, religious rituals, gender relations … Ibn Battuta described them all in his travelogue, which covered the medieval ...