History

The first strain of Yersinia pestis – the germs that caused the Black Death, a terrible bubonic plague pandemic in...

When archaeologists uncovered a 2,000year-old skull bound with metal evidence of ancient surgery, they were taken aback. Archaeologists have been...

A team of Jordanian and French archaeologists said Tuesday that they had discovered a 9,000year-old monument in Jordan's eastern deserts....

Intricate tube structures discovered in ancient reefs could be the remains of prehistoric horny sponges and the world's oldest known...

'Cheddar Man,' Britain's oldest skeleton, had a dark complexion, and DNA analysis revealed that he has a living relative currently...

According to researchers, Indigenous people in Peru's Chincha Valley invented the practice of stacking human vertebral columns to rebuild the...

Officials said Tuesday that archaeologists in southern Italy uncovered ancient warrior helmets and the ruins of a painted brick wall...

A painting depicting a Nereid nymph riding a seahorse and gladiators in the fight has previously been discovered. Archaeologists discovered...

An interdisciplinary team of researchers led by the Universities of Cambridge and Tubingen acquired over 300 fossils from the species...

170,000 years ago, caverns had spatial planning. Human ancestors knew a lot about spatial planning, according to the findings: they...