Unveil the lost civilizations in history: once thriving centers of innovation, their whereabouts ceased to exist without ...

Although brown and earthy tones were more readily available, evidence indicates that humans had a clear preference for ...

Waves of human migration across Europe during the first millennium AD have been revealed using a more precise method of analysing ancestry with ancient DNA, in research led by the Francis Crick ...

From ancient Chinese oracle bones to astrology and algorithmic prediction, our desire to find out what the future holds has ...

Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins ...

Explore the fascinating history of New Year’s resolutions, from ancient Babylonian traditions to modern-day practices.

The ancient Romans were the first to compile comprehensive texts about more than one subject, and that’s why we say they ...

The National Ice Core Facility in Lakewood, Colorado, holds 13.67 miles of ice cores preserved at -40 degrees Fahrenheit year ...

Nobel Prize-winning peacemaker Jimmy Carter spent nearly four decades waging war to eliminate an ancient parasite plaguing ...

Researchers found evidence that early versions of syphilis-causing bacteria existed in the Americas long before the arrival ...

Visionarily blending myths and science, Marguerite Humeau’s art feels as if it exists in another spatial and temporal dimension—one where time and geometry bend toward both an ancient remote past ...

A uniquely preserved prehistoric mudhole could hold the oldest-ever human footprints on the Arabian Peninsula, scientists say ...