Thousands of years before stone houses or mud bricks, Ice Age humans in Ukraine were building shelters out of mammoth bones.

Scientists used mtDNA to confirm what many researchers had long suspected: the Chinese “dragon man” Harbin skull belonged to ...

The textbook version of human evolution has long held that Homo erectus was the pioneering species to venture beyond Africa's borders around 1.8 million years ago. However, new analysis of five skulls ...

According to Ancient Minoan marriage rules, first cousin marriages were nothing unusual in the particular society.

The ancient village of Malana is famously known as the 'Greece of India'. Explore its legendary link to Alexander the Great, ...

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

The suggestion that ancient Greeks reached America before Columbus may seem far-fetched, but certain researchers think ...

Along a nine-mile stretch of river between two waterfalls in the Australian rainforest lives a tiny fish that’s been there for millions of years, hiding between rocks along the riverbank by day and ...

From Shakespeare’s notes to a 3D scan of the Titanic, here are the most exciting historical discoveries of the previous year.

An extinct race in One Piece is not uncommon, even in a world full of fish-men and giants. Some races have almost disappeared ...

Her body was a canvas. It told the story of her life. Her beliefs. Now, 2500 years later, this ancient ink is exposing a lost Iron Age culture.

Mistletoe is a mysterious holiday plant that many of us may not understand much about other than the fact that you may be at ...