Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra. This ...

Perhaps the most well-known of the lost Greek letters is Digamma. Shaped like an F or a modern-day gamma with an extra stem, Digamma represented the “w” sound. Its use was widespread in early dialects ...

Collagen from a fossilized bone fragment can identify the animal it came from. And, some new info about our galaxy’s eventual extinction.

Hundreds of acres in Michigan are covered in parallel rows of earth that are the remains of an ancient Native American ...

Using genomic data from ancient and modern samples, this important study investigates the genomic history ... From the initial expansion of domestic cattle into Europe during the Neolithic period, ...

The Hirschfeld Krater, Ancient Greece, mid-8th century BC ... provide information about the life of the peasants towards the end of the 8th century BC. As in Geometric Period art and its influence on ...

18,000-year-old remains in Poland show signs of cannibalism Cut marks suggest scalping, defleshing, and brain removal Study links the practice to warfare, not survival needs ...

Credit: Stanisław Kontny for Praehistorische Zeitschrift Recent discoveries suggest that small spoon-shaped objects attached to the belts of ancient Northern European warriors might have been ...

Now, two separate studies published in the journals Science and Nature in December have dated this period ... contemporary human genomes and 58 ancient modern human genomes from remains in Europe ...

An ancient European city has beaten major cities around ... The ruins from the city's ancient period continue to be the main attraction for people coming to visit the city. These include the ...