Deep in the archaeological record of the Levant, a collection of tiny clay objects has quietly upended what scientists ...

A professor of anthropology explores how early hominids ate prehistoric elephants to survive.

Long before modern science, ancient civilizations told powerful stories to explain how the world, life, and the gods first came into being. This video explores more of the most fascinating creation ...

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Our brains love patterns and origins, so the long arc of ancient history feels like the ultimate mystery binge. Archaeology gives us testable clues—radiocarbon dates, inscriptions, pollen grains—so ...

BERGAMA, Turkey, March 13 (Reuters) - Archaeologists in Turkey have discovered traces of human excrement in a 1,900-year-old glass vial used to hold perfumes or elixirs, which ‌they believe is the ...

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Scientists have finally come face-to-face with an ancient human ancestor called Little Foot. A new digital reconstruction reveals the visage of one of our oldest close human relatives, researchers ...

“Little Foot” is the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found. And now we finally have an idea of what this group of ancient hominins looked like Little Foot’s face, however, has long eluded ...

Example of tracing of a fragment (modified from Texier et al), normalization of the engraved lines, and data extraction. Credit: PLOS One (2026). More than 60,000 years ago, early humans in southern ...