A mystery of ancient engineering revealed - was this the answer to Judah’s worst drought? A study by the Israel Antiquities ...

Carbon-14 dating unlocks ancient secret, indicates monumental Siloam Dam was built in 800 BCE to face a climate crisis.

A massive dam uncovered in Jerusalem’s City of David has been dated to the reign of Kings Joash or Amaziah, showing how Judah ...

Once dismissed as “junk” DNA, ancient viruses embedded in the human genome play a key role in early human development, ...

Yara Souza of Orlando, Florida, discovered the ninth-century golden artifact during an excavation in Redesdale, ...

A new study suggests an enzyme unique to Homo sapiens may have made us more competitive water seekers than our closest ...

DNA has an expiration date. But proteins are revealing secrets about our ancient ancestors we never thought possible.

Fossilized teeth show that two different kinds of ancient human ancestors coexisted more than 2 million years ago. One of ...

For some cultures, the practice of cranial deformation may have offered individuals a path to privilege later in their lives.

Archaeologists analyzing over 200 coins dating back to the first millennium CE found that these pieces of silver indicate extensive economic connections in Southeast Asia at the time. A coin found in ...

Ancient Trees, Dwindling in the Wild, Thrive on Sacred Ground Buddhist temples in China are home to trees from dozens of endangered species, a new study shows. Some of them are almost 2,000 years old.