A deep look at the most graffiti-filled corridor in all of Pompeii revealed 79 new inscriptions from over 2,000 years ago, ...

Geologists have uncovered the world’s largest iron ore deposit in Australia’s Pilbara region, valued at nearly Rs 500 trillion, with the potential to reshape global trade.

“Our results push back the association of T. pallidum with humans by thousands of years, possibly more than 10,000 years ago ...

Treponema pallidum, a microorganism that can cause a deadly sexually transmitted disease in humans, may have a far more ancient lineage than scientists once thought ...

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 Wisconsin–Madison have created a new way to improve our understanding of the ...

The construction of the Great Pyramid in Egypt has long remained a mystery to archaeologists, because ancient texts did not ...

Scribblings analysed using state-of the art technology have brought new insight into the daily life and emotions of people who lived in the ancient city ...

Archaeologists from University College London and the Natural History Museum suggest the findings offer insights into the cognitive abilities of early human ancestors.

A remarkable prehistoric hammer made from elephant bone, dating back nearly half a million years ago, has been uncovered in ...

The cave paintings were discovered by an international team of researchers preserved in limestone caves on one of Sulawesi’s ...

The 67,800-year-old hand stencil looks like a claw—and provides new clues about early human cognition and the migration to ...