Mammoth bones dating back between 30,000 and 40,000 years discovered in a basement in Lower Austria, a key find in a century.

The stone walls of Matera do not whisper history—they press it into the air. The scent of damp limestone still clings to cave ...

Remains found at the Nesher Ramla settlement in Israel reveal that archaic humans hunted wild cattle 120,000 years ago.

On Dec. 4 the meeting of the Fredonia Shakespeare Club took place at the home of Lucille Richardson with Joan Larson hosting.

From 'The Graduate' to 'The Simpsons,' looking back on the best of the actor's big-screen and small-screen work ...

A story about a “mysterious power plug” turning up in a 100,000‑year‑old cave sounds tailor‑made for viral headlines and late ...

The first Homo sapiens to arrive in the Americas may have originated in a region covering today’s Hokkaido, Sakhalin and the ...

The first discoveries in Cádiz date to the early 20th century. In 1914, French scholar Abbé Henri Breuil documented dozens of ...

Why do people wear clothes, and when did they start doing so? To answer this fundamental question, archaeologist Ian Gilligan of the University of Sydney went back to the beginning. “There’s little ...

Analysis of woolly rhinoceros DNA recovered from the permafrost-preserved wolf further hints that the Ice Age beasts went ...

Researchers from the Center for Paleogenetics have managed to analyze the genome from a 14,400-year-old woolly rhinoceros, ...

Hallucigenia was such an odd animal that palaeontologists reconstructed it upside-down when they first analysed its fossils - ...