Multiple copies of amylase genes presumably allowed agrarian societies to more efficiently extract energy from a diet high in ...

Rüdiger Teegen of Ludwig-Maximilians University examined the cremated remains of more than 1,600 people unearthed at the ...

Top: Greek temple remains, Thonis-Heracleion, Egypt. Clockwise from left (above): Byzantine jewelry, Canopus, Egypt, Byzantine gold coin, Canopus, 4th-century B.C ...

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Cosmos Magazine reports that researchers led by Vito Hernandez of Flinders University are reconstructing the environment of ...

CHIFENG CITY, CHINA—ARTnews reports that more than 100 jade dragon figurines have been recovered from a burial mound in Mongolia’s Yuanbaoshan archaeological site. The figurines have been ...

CBC News reports that the Canadian Museum of History has repatriated the skull of a child, the skull of an older adult, and a ...

Excavations at the Israeli site of Tell es-Safi have revealed the ruins of the city of Gath, which was occupied by the Philistines during most of the Iron Age (ca. 1200–539 B.C.)(Courtesy Aren ...

The fourth-century a.d. Chronicles of Huayang, the oldest surviving Chinese geographical survey, records that Sichuan was ...

The monstrous creatures of Greek myth, such as the giant one-eyed Cyclops, may have been inspired by large fossils of extinct animals, which are plentiful in Greece. Scholars surmise that fossil ...

In his On the Embassy to Gaius, the first-century a.d. historian Philo of Alexandria recounts a diplomatic mission he led from Egypt to Rome seeking intervention on behalf of Alexandria’s Jews.