"The reopening of the National Museum is not just a cultural moment but a live testimony that Libya is building its ...

The recent archaeological discovery also deepens our understanding of trade networks between India and the Roman Empire.

The Greek word for "excellence" was mistranslated into Latin as "manliness," and eventually became our word "virtue." ...

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

Scientists have now re-examined the 2000-year-old skeleton and its DNA with new techniques. Dr William Marsh, one of our scientists who analysed the DNA, says that it’s now more likely that the Beachy ...

They look like fossils—but they’re alive, growing, and pulling carbon from the air even in total darkness. How is that ...

The oldest hominin fossils outside of Africa hail from Dmanisi in Georgia, yet the debate over which human species these ...

Historic population bottlenecks left cheetahs genetically similar, increasing disease risk and threatening long-term survival ...

Perhaps also surprising, the remains of cats and artistic depictions of them have been observed in various archaeological ...

A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale ...

Ancient living rocks along South Africa’s coast are thriving in harsh conditions, rapidly growing while storing surprising ...

Cats were domesticated in North Africa, but spread to Europe only about 2,000 years ago. Earlier reports of “house” cats were ...