For centuries, the Great Pyramid of Giza has been shrouded in mystery, with its origins tracing back to the Fourth Dynasty of ...

To create a more reliable timeline, archaeologists based at the University of Oxford have developed the most comprehensive chronological analyses of Early Egypt artifacts yet based on a computer ...

A team of researchers has identified a new species of mosasaur, an extinct aquatic reptile that dominated the oceans during ...

Evidence from Tinshemet Cave in Israel shows that early human groups shared similar burial practices, including deliberate ...

Archaeologists discovered stone tools at least a million years old on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, but exactly who made ...

Previous records suggested the pre-Dynastic period, a time when early groups began to settle along the Nile and farm the land, began in 4000BC. But the new analysis revealed this process started ...

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee assistant professor Erik Gulbransen is on the leading edge of Earth sciences thanks to his discovery of an ancient fossilized forest near the south pole.