In a discovery rewriting the timeline of symbolic behavior in early humans, archaeologists in Spain have identified what is now considered the oldest known human fingerprint—left in ochre pigment by a ...

In a remarkable find that deepens our understanding of one of the world’s oldest civilizations, archaeologists working at the Era de Pando archaeological site in Peru’s Supe Valley have uncovered a 5, ...

High in the cloud forests of the northeastern Peruvian Andes, where vegetation and altitude combine to conceal secrets, archaeologists have uncovered a breathtaking rediscovery: over 100 previously un ...

Beneath the surface of present-day western Honduras lie the ruins of Copán—an archaeological site that once stood as a vital city in the classic Maya world, situated at the crossroads between Central ...

While other ancient animals seem trapped in evolutionary stasis, others were quietly in the process of revolutionary transformation.

On the hot days of late May 1588, the ports of Lisbon were heavy with the smell of pitch, pine, and the fervent hopes of a sacred mission.

Spring in the Arctic brings forth a plethora of peeps and downy hatchlings as millions of birds gather to raise their young.The same was true 73 million years ago, according to a paper featured on the ...

About 20,000 years ago, when Europe was frozen in the final chill of the Ice Age, mysterious giants periodically washed up on the Atlantic shores of modern northern Spain and southwestern France.

New research brings together 7,000 years of history in South Arabia to show how ancient pastoralists changed placement and construction of monuments over time in the face of environmental and cultural ...

Long considered a disease brought to the Americas by European colonizers, leprosy may actually have a much older history on the American continent.Scientists from the Institut Pasteur, the CNRS, and t ...

On that cold, quiet morning of May 29, 1453, the jewel of the Eastern Roman Empire, girded by titanic Theodosian walls and the Bosphorus Strait, a bastion of Christianity in the East for more than a t ...