JAKARTA – A skullcap, molar and femur believed to be remains of Homo erectus, or “Java Man,” unearthed by Dutch geologist ...

Archaeologists rarely expect clarity when surveying the ocean floor, since water tends to erase context rather than preserve ...

I have always been fascinated by the idea of walking through history, imagining the lives of people who lived thousands of ...

When we crack open a book, we’re partaking in a small miracle, joining in a tradition, millennia in the making, of preserving ...

Teeth provide a wealth of information about the lives of Iron Age Italians, according to a study published in the open-access ...

For more than three decades, Ötzi the Iceman has been a kind of time capsule for researchers—an Alpine body preserved so well that it keeps producing scientific “firsts.” Now, a new analysis suggests ...

The work marks the first time an Ice Age animal’s complete genome has been recovered from tissue preserved inside another ...

The world as we know it today has been shaped by battles that altered the course of history and defined global power dynamics ...

The Blessing of the Waters is primarily celebrated on January 6th (Theophany/Epiphany), commemorating Christ's baptism by ...

Two prehistoric genomes have revealed the history of HPV and challenged the idea that Neanderthals first transmitted the ...

Paleoanthropologists have announced the world's most complete skeleton of Homo habilis, a human ancestor that lived more than ...

The “Trees, Time and Technology” show opening next week at the di Rosa center weaves together history, feminism, Judaica and ...