For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who shaped history and created the world’s largest language family ...

This photo provided by João Zilhão shows forearm bone fragments belonging to an ancient child that appeared to have features from both humans and Neanderthals. (João Zilhão via AP) 33,571 ...

Leaked audio instructions by Greek rescue co-ordinators have cast further doubt on Greece's official version of events in the hours before a migrant boat sank along with up to 650 people onboard.

This ancient period of deep freeze, known as the Neoproterozoic Era, or “Snowball Earth,” lasted from about 1 billion to 543 million years ago. During that time, landmasses consolidated into a ...

Frieze depicts followers of ancient Greek god Dionysus Fresco dates to 40–30 BC Latest dig began in early 2023 ROME, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Archaeologists in Pompeii have uncovered rare, nearly life ...

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Ancient Greek physicians understood the concept of anesthesia, recognizing the parallels between induced sleep and the absence of sensation in death. Credit: Jaime Ardiles-Arce, Wikimedia Commons ...

From the rover's point of view on the ground, it's hard to tell, but this ancient shoreline on Mars seemed to lie inside a 2,050-mile-wide (3,300-kilometer-wide) impact crater called Utopia Basin.

The ancient Greeks often decorated their bronze cauldrons, used to honor the gods, with the head of a griffin, whose visage is that of an eagle but whose body is that of a lion. On its website ...

A new study of ancient DNA from fifth- to sixth-century Hun skeletons suggests they were a motley crew of mixed origin with a few connections to the Xiongnu Empire in Mongolia.

An ancient Greek artifact is being repatriated to Greece from the museum where it was displayed in the US. credit: Greek Ministry of Culture An ancient Greek lekythos (oil flask) is repatriated to ...