Beneath the surface of present-day western Honduras lie the ruins of Copán—an archaeological site that once stood as a vital ...

Understand the flow of ancient Greek history with this timeline from the Bronze Age to ... That label is disputed, and alternative names for the period, such as Protogeometric, Geometric, or ...

The groundbreaking find, detailed in a study published Wednesday in the Cell Press journal Current Biology, pushes back the timeline of ant ... likely migrated between ancient landmasses multiple ...

In the Altai Mountains, in southern Siberia, lies the famous Denisova Cave, the only place in the world where the presence of ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and UCL have analyzed ancient DNA from Borrelia recurrentis, a type of bacteria ...

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

The last one of the ancient period, the Han dynasty, ruled around the same time as the ancient Roman Empire. Today, archaeologists study ancient Chinese artifacts to find clues about the ...

John Long, Flinders University; Grzegorz Niedzwiedzki, Uppsala University, and Per Ahlberg, Uppsala University ...