Australia's iconic red landscapes have been home to Aboriginal culture and recorded in songlines for tens of thousands of ...

The History Channel series returns January 15 with "Skulls of the Gods," examining whether these archaeological finds have ...

One of the best-preserved ancient Roman homes on the Palatine Hill is opening to the public for the first time ...

An excavation on the Greek island of Evia uncovered an unknown temple near the Temple of Amarysia Artemis still overflowing ...

How was the great English playwright William Shakespeare influenced by ancient Greece, and how did he come to know about its ...

Some DNA passed down from ancient hunter-gatherers has been found to be a crucial force in living to be 100 years old.

Children in Ancient Greece played with figurines that, much like modern Barbies, reflected the society and aspirations of ...

Just like Rome was not built in a day, human beings were also not what they look like today. It is centuries of evolution ...

Researchers have reconstructed ancient herpesvirus genomes from Iron Age and medieval Europeans, revealing that HHV-6 has ...

New research indicates that humans shaped their environments through hunting and controlled use of fire tens of thousands of ...

Ancient DNA has been pulled from a permafrost-preserved woolly mammoth found in Siberia, and scientists are thrilled. They ...