A long-neglected fossil seems to show the evolutionary leap that let the ancestors of today’s many-legged arthropods crawl ...

A collaborative team of scientists has discovered that life on Earth over three billion years ago relied on the metal ...

Long-forgotten ancient tablets have been decoded, uncovering a mix of magic, politics, and daily life from early ...

A shroud of mystery remains conceals the knowledge contained within the lost works of the Greek philosopher Aristotle.

A long-overlooked writing system from 5000 years ago is still largely undeciphered, but could mark the moment humans first ...

Here's something archaeologists don't see every day, or indeed ever: An ancient Egyptian mummy with an excerpt from the ...

Discover how the accidental discovery of the Rosetta Stone by soldiers in 1799 unlocked the mystery of ancient Egyptian ...

Researchers discovered an Iliad fragment in a mummy, marking the first literary papyrus used in embalming and offering new ...

In this piece, I will be taking seriously the wisdom of Pericles and Aristotle; one was one of the founding statesmen of Athenian democracy ...

The vast amount of misinformation circulating in public health is largely due to not understanding evidence-based science.

By reconstructing a 700,000-year history of Methana volcano, geologists found a prehistoric phase when it appeared inactive ...

Scarisoara Ice Cave in Romania. Credit: Paun V.I. Bacteria lurk everywhere. However, it’s only after researchers retrieve them from the most remote corners of the Earth that we can learn more about ...