Think ancient civilizations were primitive? The evidence suggests otherwise. From computers that tracked celestial events to concrete that grows stronger with age, our ancestors created technologies ...
Scientists have recovered a genome of Treponema pallidum—the bacterium whose subspecies today are responsible for four ...
A 5500-year-old genome recovered from human skeletal remains in Colombia may give insights into the early evolution of ...
By resurrecting a 3.2-billion-year-old enzyme and studying it inside living microbes, researchers at the University of ...
An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...
The structure is the first known evidence of a building attributed to Vitruvius, the author of an architectural treatise that ...
The complete genome of an ancient Egyptian has been sequenced, revealing genetic links between the Nile and Mesopotamia 5,000 ...
An ancient handprint in a cave on an Indonesian island may be the oldest known rock art, created at least 67,800 years ago.