When the three-million-year-old bones of Lucy were unearthed in an Ethiopian valley in 1974, paleoanthropologists anointed ...

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A 4,500-year-old burial in Middle Egypt has reshaped what scientists know about ancient Egyptian origins. Inside a sealed ...

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The wealthiest grave containing the oldest golden artifacts ever found from the 5th millennium BC was discovered in the 1970s ...

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In what is a bittersweet mirror to the past, the oldest evidence of what appears to be a domestic cat was unearthed in 2004, ...

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

The museum PETRI Berlin has been founded to house the traces of the Middle Ages uncovered in the heart of the capital.