Recent fossil discoveries in China, from the Harbin 'Dragon Man' skull to the million-year-old Yunxian crania, are transforming our understanding of human evolution. These finds reveal confirmed ...

The Queen Oak, which is more than 600 years old, has work carried out to extend its life.

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The ancient city of Napata, located in what is now northern Sudan, stood for centuries as a powerful urban and cultural center of the Kingdom of Kush. A new study explains how the city owed its ...

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

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

A small, newly uncovered document from ancient Dongola is reshaping what historians know about a little-understood period in ...

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

Researchers believe the ax dates to between 1400 B.C.E. and 1275 B.C.E. and is a relic of the Bronze Age, when humans started ...

Artistic reconstruction of a dire wolf. You may have seen them in Game of Thrones, but dire wolves aren’t fantasy beasts.