The first full ancient Egyptian genome reveals ancestry from both North Africa and Mesopotamia. The individual likely worked ...

In a long-sought first, researchers have sequenced the entire genome of an ancient Egyptian person, revealing unprecedented insight about the ancestry of a man who lived during the time when the ...

Using DNA-analysis, scientists have identified an ancient human relative nicknamed "Dragon Man", new research showed. It all started with a 146,000-year-old skull found by a labourer in the northern ...

Fu and her colleagues attempted to retrieve ancient DNA from six samples taken from Dragon Man’s surviving tooth and the cranium’s petrous bone, a dense piece at the base of the skull that’s ...

Ancient snail shells helped archeologists re-evaluate the age of the oldest known wooden weapons collection: a site in Lower Saxony, Germany, famous for its arsenal of hunting equipment, including ...

The Cleveland Museum of Art will transfer ownership of its 2,200-year-old statue to Libya, facilitating cultural exchange and cooperation under a US-Libya agreement.

Urmahlullu, the Babylonian creature that's half man and half lion. Bred for battle and to protect your rear!

Two life-sized statues have been unearthed in Pompeii, including a bejewelled priestess of the ancient goddess Ceres.

An ancient man’s remains were hacked apart and kept in a garage Why archaeologists are increasingly leaving historic sites untouched until we have less destructive technologies for studying them.

Urmahlullu, the Babylonian creature that's half man and half lion. Bred for battle and to protect your rear!

The pop star Robbie Williams is leagues more famous in his homeland of England than here in the States, American tastemakers having capriciously chosen to ignore his chart-topping ’90s boy band ...