First ancient genomic data from Copán offers insights into ancestry and population dynamics during the Classic Maya period. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic.

Ancient DNA reveals how Mayan civilisation collapsed. Maya civilisation population decreased vastly during late Classic period. Vishwam Sankaran. Thursday 29 May 2025 09:06 BST. Comments.

Three tombs dating back thousands of years have been unearthed in an ancient Egyptian burial complex.. The tombs of three prominent statesmen from the New Kingdom era (1539 to 1077 BCE) have been ...

The latest ancient Greek archaeological find to cause a stir is a Hellenistic marble workshop, discovered during a dig on Paros, part of the Cyclades island group in the Aegean Sea. You might not ...

Sensory features on the armored exoskeletons of ancient fish may be the reason why humans have teeth that are sensitive to cold and other extremes.

Geologists have found that an ancient meteorite hit Scotland 200 million years later than previously thought, which has massive implications for the geological history of the region and some of ...

Historians recently unveiled their findings about an ancient purple dye factory located in modern-day Israel — revealing a glimpse into life during biblical times. In an article recently ...

Among the colorful mythologies of Europe, Norse mythology has been attracting a lot of attention in the world of fiction, more than similar systems from Ancient Greece and Rome. In Norse mythology, ...

At some point rather early in the spring of 1947, a Bedouin boy called Muhammed the Wolf was minding some goats near a cliff on the western shore of the Dead Sea. Climbing up after one that had ...

Almost 300 years later, scientists wanted to chart the historical range of this critically endangered, bulbous-headed cetacean—so they combed hundreds of ancient Chinese poems to seek mentions ...

Students cook ancient rice dish based on 2,000-year-old manuscript with surprisingly healthy results The ancient recipe yielded a 'loose yet elastic' food By Andrea Margolis Fox News ...

Item 1 of 4 Field work takes place near the site where the tomb chamber, dating to about 3,600 years ago, of an unknown ancient Egyptian king was discovered during excavations by Penn Museum and ...