In the quiet vastness of the Kalahari, these sacred hills tell the story of the San people and the earliest traces of ...

At Site Santa Fe, 71 artists were inspired by Southwestern figures, from healers and novelists to Navajo code talkers. Here’s ...

Raksha Dave, born in 1977, is a Pakistani living in Great Britain who is president of the Council for British Archaeology. She has appeared in British ...

Today, as the world observes World Brain Day, the spotlight turns not just to the complex marvel inside our skulls, but to a growing concern: are we truly using it anymore? From the ancient days of ...

New additions to Unesco ’s World Heritage Sites have been announced for 2025 – with 26 properties, including Bavarian palaces in Germany and a Brazilian river canyon, now featured on the list.

Get our newsletter! Scientists sequenced ancient proteins in a tooth from a prehistoric rhino relative that had been preserved in Canada's High Arctic for up to 24 million years.

Sri Lanka hides a secret deep within its emerald jungles: a wild, golden-eyed beauty that few ever glimpse. The Sri Lankan leopard, sometimes called the “island panther,” stalks the heart of ancient ...

Imagine a world where enormous cats with fangs like daggers prowled the wild plains, ruling their territory with silent power. Just 10,000 years ago, saber-toothed cats—those mysterious, almost ...

Remote cave discovery shows ancient voyagers brought rice across 2,300 km of Pacific Ocean by Hsiao-chun Hung, The Conversation edited by Gaby Clark, reviewed by Andrew Zinin Editors' notes ...

Better yet, they often have ties to ancient mythology or historic cities ... Ochre — This yellowish natural pigment traces its history all the way back to prehistoric cave paintings, per Royal Talens.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Niède Guidon, the Brazilian archaeologist known for discovering hundreds of prehistoric cave paintings in northeastern Brazil and for her research challenging theories of ...

The Brazilian archaeologist who discovered hundreds of prehistoric cave paintings in northeastern Brazil has died.