Over 40,000 years ago, our early ancestors were already carving signs into tools and sculptures. According to a new analysis ...

A recently discovered Greek inscription at the base of a column inside the Great Mosque of Homs in Syria has rekindled a longstanding scholarly debate about the exact location of the Temple of the sun ...

A piece of etched rock discovered at the site of an ancient Roman settlement in the Netherlands is now thought to be an ancient game board. Researchers used AI to simulate gameplay and test whether ...

The ancient burial of a woman from Central Asia's Pazyryk culture shows evidence of what may be history's earliest jaw ...

Sumerians used advanced ancient technology to engineer bitumen with fibers and minerals, revealing sophisticated material science.

CT scans reveal an ancient skull surgery in a woman from Siberia’s Pazyryk culture, reshaping views of ancient surgical skill.

Researchers argue that the presence of long chain carbon molecules on Mars "cannot be readily explained" by non-biological processes alone.

Archaeologists may have uncovered the long-lost "City of Iron" in the mountains of Uzbekistan.

Deep within a cave on New Zealand’s North Island, scientists have uncovered a long-lost record of life from a million years ago.

Organic compounds discovered on the Red Planet cannot be fully explained by non-biological sources, say astrobiologists.