In a prominent paper published in 1977,Xia drew on nearly 100 radiocarbon-dated samples to systematically establish absolute ...

An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...

The structure is the first known evidence of a building attributed to Vitruvius, the author of an architectural treatise that ...

CT residents are invited to learn about recent archaeological discoveries and ongoing research across the state during an annual public lecture.

An ancient handprint in a cave on an Indonesian island may be the oldest known rock art, created at least 67,800 years ago.

The world’s oldest known example of cave art, dating back at least 67,800 years, has been discovered by researchers studying ...

In 2018, the first official Chinese-Egyptian joint archaeological mission was launched by the Institute of Archaeology at the ...

The hand stencil is more than 1,000 years older than the previous earliest evidence of rock art.

A lot of little kids go through the dinosaur phase, and I was no exception. But where most broke off into loving sports or ...

Erich von Däniken, the Swiss author whose books on the extraterrestrial origins of ancient civilizations brought him both ...

A major claim in the older media cycle was that NASA removed the book and related materials. Whatever happened during the original wave of reporting, the current reality is clear: NASA now provides an ...

My quest for the ark of the covenant was abruptly disrupted at 35,000 feet over the Atlantic Ocean. Three hours into our ...