Leveraging a unique statistical analysis and applying it to ancient DNA extracted from human skeletal remains, a team of ...

Researchers led by Dr. Alexandros Karakostis from the Institute for Archaeological Science and the Senckenberg Center for ...

The miners needed an efficient means to transport heavy loads of copper ore through narrow, winding mine tunnels. The study ...

As visitors reach the end of the European painting section on the second floor of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, they come ...

Nov. 13, 2024 — An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of Mars eventually crashed into the Earth and is one of ...

On Nov. 18, 1883, Americans adopted four standardized time zones, replacing a confusing, dangerous hodgepodge of times.

Fifty years ago, the famed Arecibo message was fired into space to make contact with intelligent extraterrestrials. Now is ...

All these changes occu – rred around 100,000 years ago, when they began to devote almost all their time and efforts to ...

ANKARA, Nov. 4 (Xinhua) -- The first World Neolithic Congress kicked off on Monday in the southeastern Turkish city of Sanliurfa, attracting nearly a thousand scholars from 64 countries.

4 November, 1956 Soviet tanks roll into Budapest to crush revolution. Alarmed by Nagy's declaration of neutrality the Soviet leadership encourages Kadar to form an alternative government. An estimated ...