A new discovery reveals over 5,000 perfectly aligned pits on a hillside in Peru.

New research reveals how the invention of a crucial Ice Age technology helped humans defend against extreme cold during ...

Threading the halls with Robert Schneider between classes is not a linear experience. Neither is conversation. Waysides, detours, and sidetracks abound, fruitful territory for the musician turned ...

Soil erosion in the Aravallis is rising fast. A study reveals built-up areas have grown by 53%, leading to a 13.8% annual increase in soil loss between 2017 and 2024 despite increased forest cover.

For the first time, scientists have used DNA preserved in ancient sediments to examine how a major natural disaster affected ...

The Archimedes Palimpsest is a 10th-century Byzantine Greek manuscript that was overwritten in the 13th century with a Christian liturgical text. This practice of creating a palimpsest, or a reused ...

Mushrooms have been used by ancient humans for millennia, but archaeologists have only just uncovered their pivotal role in ...

Researchers using advanced imaging technology have deciphered 79 previously invisible inscriptions — including love notes, drawings of gladiators, and everyday messages — on a wall in the ancient city ...

It’s a kind of notice board … where people left messages, history, greetings, insults, drawings and much more.” ...

The Widmanstätten pattern also hints at how the meteorite was processed by the ancient Egyptians. The cross-hatched texture, ...

A photographic technique called Reflectance Transformation Imaging, also known as RTI, has now changed that. The new technology allowed researchers to decode 79 previously unreadable messages — ...

A study led by McKenna Litynski, a recent Ph.D. graduate in anthropology and adjunct assistant professor at the University of ...