Ancient Greek engineers created a breathtaking astronomical machine so advanced it inspired Indiana Jones and still ...

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

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 ...

US President Donald Trump will visit China this week for a major summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing. The ...

Tariffs, the competition over tech, the Iran war and Taiwan are on the agenda for the leaders of the two superpowers.

The cypress swamp at the heart of this park is the kind of landscape that makes you stop in your tracks and just stare. These ...

We hardly give them a second thought, but everyday objects like bags and backpacks belong to a long technological tradition that may stretch back hundreds of thousands of years.

A hole drilled into a 60,000-year-old molar suggests that Neanderthals practiced complex dental care long before modern ...

Tiny crystals hidden inside an ancient bone forced scientists to redraw the timeline of a famous Homo juluensis tool site.

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Stone tools uncovered at the Lingjing archaeological site in central China have been dated to 146,000 years ago, or about ...

When the earliest humans began to migrate out of Africa, it didn’t take long before they ran into an ocean. Or a sea. Or a lake. Or a river — most of our planet’s surface is water, after all. For ...