An analysis of bones from ancient people who once lived in Colombia has discovered DNA that does not directly connect them to ...

Archaeologists in Turkey discovered over 60 ancient tombs in Colossae, the biblical city mentioned in St. Paul's famous New ...

DNA recovered from 1,000-year-old dried feces indicates that intestinal infections from pinworm or Shingella may have plagued ...

Missouri State University archaeologists Daniel Pierce and Christopher Bodine are heading to Brazil to study ancient Amazonian geoglyphs that may reveal an unknown civilization.

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

Australia’s First Peoples may or may not have hunted the continent’s megafauna to extinction, but they definitely collected ...

Long before factories, mines, and cars filled the air with pollution, our distant ancestors were already living with a silent ...

When archaeologists study how ancient civilizations traveled, they can use evidence like wagons and stables and roads to understand how goods and people moved on land. But when they want to learn ...

The mountain’s name means “the place where exchanges/trades/barters are made to produce/manipulate water,” and surveys conducted in the 1960s of the mountain’s summit found temple platforms, mounds ...

The rock art was used to mark the location of water sources in an illustration of how ancient people tackled some of Earth’s most inhospitable environs.

Ghosts stories appear in several surviving texts from ancient Rome. What do they reveal about the people who told them?

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