The Toba supereruption 74,000 years ago was so massive it may have plunged Earth into years of darkness and cold, leading some scientists to believe humanity nearly went extinct. Yet archaeological ...

Having weathered nearly 1,500 years of time and exposure, the remains of Roman-Byzantine villages in Syria have been the ...

Scientists in China discovered that ancient humans were making surprisingly advanced stone tools during a harsh ice age ...

Tartaria was a real place that appeared on old maps, but there is no evidence to support the conspiracy theories surrounding ...

Archaeologists have translated Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets from 720 B.C.E. detailing rare royal rituals and king lists, while Ice Age stone tools from China show advanced craftsmanship by an ...

Researchers have deciphered a collection of cuneiform writing from the earliest civilizations of the Near East. The analysis ...

Scientists have revealed a precocious nanotech discovery involving an ancient Roman artifact that predates the modern ...

A recent archaeological study has identified the earliest lithic heat treatment of chert in the world. Discovered in ...

Each week, we showcase a different astonishing artifact that gives us new insight into how our ancestors lived. This rare ...

A long-neglected fossil seems to show the evolutionary leap that let the ancestors of today’s many-legged arthropods crawl ...