Halafian pottery shows that early agricultural societies practiced advanced mathematical thinking through plant-based art long before writing.

Known as a kore, this 2,500 year-old-statue is a fusion of ancient aesthetics and a symbol of cultural exchange between the ...

The iconic Homo erectus fossil was welcomed home with a repatriation ceremony and a new museum exhibit in Jakarta.

High on the sheer limestone cliffs in southwest China, ancient wooden coffins remain wedged into rock faces hundreds of feet ...

In the last decade, archaeologists have learned to read the genetic traces that ancient humans and Neanderthals left not only ...

Scientists have reconstructed the head of an ancient human relative from 1.5 million year-old fossilized bones and teeth. But ...

Here are 10 major findings about human ancestors and our close ancient relatives that scientists announced in 2025. A handful ...

Urfa is known as the City of Prophets. Revered in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, it is associated with figures including ...

Night fell dark, harsh, and cold. Mount Gilboa, in northern Israel, rose above the Jezreel Valley, about 25 kilometers from ...

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.