A team of archaeologists from LSU and the University of Texas at Tyler have excavated the earliest known ancient Maya salt works in southern Belize, as reported in the journal Antiquity. The team was ...

An analysis looking at the hand bones of australopithecines, apes and humans reveals that tool use likely evolved before the ...

Did you know that the concept of atomic theory was first explored over 2,500 years ago in ancient India? Long before modern science, an Indian sage named Acharya Kanad proposed the idea of indivisible ...

The discovery of an impeccably preserved Celtic burial chamber in southern Germany is a "stroke of luck for archaeology," ...

The Ministry of Ayush’s research body CCRAS launched a special issue of JDRAS, focusing on Ayurveda Aahara, a science-backed ...

Lucy’s discovery transformed our understanding of human origins. Don Johanson, who unearthed the Australopithecus afarensis ...

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On a misty moor in Cornwall, a monument long thought to date to the medieval period has turned out to be more than meets the ...

"To me, it's always exciting to get to name something new, something that's brand new to science," Eberle said. "Its genus ...

But she says the earring holes are a dead giveaway. Ancient Egyptian culture was built around religious symbology. This was to clearly broadcast an individual’s status and rank. And 3000 years of ...

A six-foot-long structure was observed in the black-and-white photos, matching ancient accounts that led researchers to ...

NEWS ANALYSIS. Fifty years after this fossil's discovery, its place in the history of humankind is still debated, while, in ...