High-resolution imaging at USC reveals evidence of chronic pain, dental disease and possible surgical intervention in two ...

For over a century, strange machining marks on Egyptian stone have defied explanation, showing levels of precision beyond even modern tools. Some researchers now connect this evidence to a dooms day ...

Old beliefs about early human behavior in East Asia are being challenged by the discovery of a richly-layered archaeological site located in central China. The excavation project at Xigou, led by the ...

Archaeologists in central China have uncovered evidence that early humans were far more inventive than long assumed. Excavations at the Xigou site reveal advanced stone tools, including the earliest ...

However, direct field observation continues to show that not all architectural elements within the plateau fit comfortably within these established models. The Mortuary Temple of Khafre, located on ...

Exploring Earth's deep interior is a far bigger challenge than exploring the solar system. While we have traveled 25 billion ...

New evidence has emerged that sheds light on the possible first people to populate the Americas. Dating of stone and ivory ...

Ancient magnetic fossils reveal that animal navigation using Earth’s magnetic field may have evolved far earlier than ...

How far back does the rich history of Italian olives and oil stretch? My new research, synthesising and reevaluating existing archaeological evidence, suggests olive trees have been exploited for more ...

Here, I see activity going back 1.76 million years with a complete sequence," Liu says. He was particularly struck by the ...

While gas consumption continued to rise in the ensuing decades, lead samples in hair dropped sharply. Samples from the 1970s ...

On India’s southeastern coast, where the Cauvery River empties into the Bay of Bengal, archaeologists have resumed work at a ...