In an extravaganza of pharaonic imagery with a drone light show depicting ancient gods and pyramids in the sky, Egypt on ...

Scientists dug into paleofeces for a new study, learning some very intimate details about how long-ago people lived.

In an excerpt from his new book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean explores a weird and wild '90s experiment to replicate ancient ...

The 1-inch pottery fragment, which is part of a seal that was used to authenticate official documents, was reportedly found ...

It is clear that the sprawling city of Teotihuacan near Mexico City was a major metropolis of the ancient world, but what do ...

A trove of golden treasures and antiquities detailing life in ancient Egypt will go on public display at Cairo's record-breaking new museum.

A peatland "time capsule" has been found to preserve a slice of a prehistoric woodland habitat containing material that looks like it could have been "buried yesterday," according to researchers. The ...

A remarkable set of prehistoric rock art sites likely provided hunter-gatherers with an enchanting "multisensory experience" thanks to their special acoustic properties, a study has revealed.

Scientists and niche-brewers have combined to make beer out of yeast that dates back almost to the time of the dinosaurs. And ...