The Minoans’ obsession with solar eclipses led to the creation of remarkable hilltop observatories and potentially the first ...

FILE: Reconstructions of a Neanderthal man, left, and woman at the Neanderthal museum in Mettmann, Germany, March 2009 ...

The old World history textbook I used in school specifically stated something like, “Some people, looking at the Pyramids of ...

The ancient Egyptians built temples that lasted thousands of years, and one of them happens to be in San Jose. Well, ...

Archaeologists in Uzbekistan have uncovered 80,000-year-old arrowheads, possibly crafted by Neanderthals.

Technology has long been used to facilitate divine contact, to combine tradition and innovation, and to help spread religious ...

Video. Growing research – including ancient DNA technology – is changing the picture of human evolution and how our ancestors interacted with other human-like creatures.

There are many open questions about how our planet formed 4.55 billion years ago: When did plate tectonics start? When did the Earth's mantle begin to vigorously circulate in a process called ...

The ancient Romans were great builders, especially known for their aqueducts. These are still standing today because they were made with a special kind of concrete called pozzolanic concrete. This ...

During their excavation work, archaeologists discovered an oval stone measuring roughly 8.3 by 5.7 inches in diameter and ...

Earth experienced a period of intense, large-scale volcanism during the early Aptian. Around that time, it also experienced widespread ocean deoxygenation during the Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a (OAE1a) as ...

The copper and leather device represents the first evidence of mechanical tools from Egypt’s pre-Pharaonic history.