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

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Tiny zircon crystals are revealing that Earth’s earliest history may have included surprisingly complex tectonic activity.

Buni lamented that for many decades, several communities along the banks of River Yobe were plagued by Chronic Kidney Disease ...

A 1950s find of Late Pleistocene perishable items from two Oregon caves was recently made available to scientists. Included in the 55 items were two pieces of elk hide stitched together, dated to ...

Meredith Martin will use AI tools to parse English poetry across millenia. Peter Henderson is building artificial intelligence to better understand the law.

Nearly a decade in the making, the Central Asian nation is set to highlight its far-reaching influence on religion, cultural exchange, and scholarly traditions.

AI tech leaders have a lot to gain from striking fear into the hearts of their investors. By painting the tech as an ultra-powerful force that could easily bring humanity to its knees, the industry is ...

The recent discovery of rock art in a cave in Indonesia might signify more than just our ancestors’ artistic ability. The art, believed to be the oldest rock paintings ever discovered, dates back more ...

Indonesia’s vast archipelago is covered with the fingerprints of human history: ancient cave paintings. But on an island just off Sulawesi, archaeologists have now identified the world’s oldest known ...

Editor’s Note: Below is the English translation from Polish, provided from the Vatican website; the 2026 World Communications Day will be celebrated on May 17. The face and voice are sacred. They were ...

The world’s oldest surviving rock art is a faded outline of a hand on an Indonesian cave wall, left 67,800 years ago. On a tiny island just off the coast of Sulawesi (a much larger island in Indonesia ...