From mysterious ruins to jaw-dropping architecture, these archaeological gems are like time machines in stone.

Present-day speakers of Hungarian, Finnish and Estonian have substantial Siberian ancestry, a new study of ancient genomes finds. These roots likely spread westward from a group of people living in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A facial reconstruction was made using a 3D scan of the Egyptian man's skull. - Caroline Wilkinson, Liverpool John Moores ...

For most of the 20th century, the model of human origins was a tree: with the trunk dividing into branches, and then twigs. Each species of human relative (hominin) was a neat, single branch.

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered the 4,400-year-old tomb of a prince whose burial has a giant "false" pink door to enable souls to enter and exit. The tomb belongs to Prince Userefre, also ...

Why do people in Italy, specifically, live longer than most? Well, according to DNA samples, it’s their genetic ancestry. A recent study reached into the prehistoric past to uncover why people ...

Our modern financial world has evolved to include the use of credit cards, online banking, and Venmo. But centuries before ...

Long before farming took hold, ancient Indigenous peoples of the American Southwest were already shaping the future of a wild potato. New evidence shows that this small, hardy plant was deliberately ...

Sometime around 100 AD, the Roman lawyer and aristocrat Pliny sent a letter to his third wife, Calpurnia – who was staying in a different part of Italy – to express how much he loved and missed her: I ...