A study says the Ain Samiya goblet, found in 1970, depicts a moment of cosmic creation, challenging previous scholarly ...

A group of scientists are studying the Cyclades, an island group in Greece's Aegean Sea, looking for signs of early human ...

As far as kitchen staples, you don’t really get much better than olive oil. It can do it all—jazz up a salad, sauté ...

Archaeologists in Hungary have uncovered a 1,300-year-old warrior’s tomb containing one of only about 80 known Avar sabers, a ...

Clues from a digital reconstruction of a lavish ancient home are changing how researchers understand Pompeii’s elite.

Based on genetic material preserved in birch bark tar from Estonia, researchers found that the teen likely had brown hair and ...

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A new study revisits ancient Chinese records to explore whether a comet could explain the Star of Bethlehem described in ...

A 2,100-year-old Hasmonean Wall found in Jerusalem’s Old City offers rare evidence of ancient defenses dismantled during a ...

"Some of our ancestors were very skilled observers." A team of international researchers say they've uncovered new data on ...

Olive oil is the Swiss army knife of foodstuffs. It can dress salads, sauté vegetables, even grease squeaky hinges. And for ...

Plant species mentioned in texts from the past 800 years hint the wooded grasslands of western India have been there since ...