A 2023 study by researchers at Auburn University revealed that free-ranging cats consume at least 2,084 different animal ...

The 67,800-year-old hand stencil looks like a claw—and provides new clues about early human cognition and the migration to ...

A new study refines radiocarbon dating of marine remains and significantly improves the precision with which the human past ...

The project, described by Pompeii officials as Bruits de couloir (“corridor whispers”), used Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI), a computational photography technique that photographs a surface ...

Not every notable discovery consists of a single extraordinary artifact, a previously unknown structure, or a newly revised date for an ancient technology. Some of the most significant discoveries ...

The once-thriving city of Pompeii, near Naples, was buried in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, preserving buildings, ...

Fresco, House of Livia, Prima Porta, 1st century B.C. People have created gardens across the world and throughout time, and these spaces have been an essential part of the human experience. Gardens ...

That’s the everyday experience awaiting visitors at Nitro Antique Mall in Nitro, West Virginia – a destination that has ...

The "very rare" find provides an extraordinary glimpse into the ingenuity of early human relatives who lived around half a ...

While it shares features with modern humans, H. habilis also has traits that would have given it an advantage in climbing ...

A novel biochemical analysis of a Renaissance medical text has successfully recovered centuries-old proteins that might be ...

Researchers from several European institutions, led by scientists from the University of Barcelona and the University of ...