An ancient crocodile fossil found in the same limestone used to build the Great Sphinx has gotten a new identity.

Introduction: What Did Yamata no Orochi Represent?Yamata no Orochi appears in Japanese mythology.It is a giant monster with ...

A major river restoration project in Northumberland has brought the River Breamish closer to its natural form by recovering a ...

From centuries-old manuscripts in Son La to classrooms in Vietnam's northern mountains, five Hanoi high school students are ...

Almost every book that survives from the ancient world does so because somebody copied it by hand. But one Roman library ...

For over a century, the claim that the port of Galle was the biblical port of Tarshish—King Solomon’s legendary trade hub—has ...

Humans know a great deal about the past.Ancient Egypt.Mesopotamia.The Indus Valley Civilization.The Yellow River Civilization.The Maya Civilization.We also know that even in earlier times, humans ...

Colossal Biosciences brought back 20 key segments of extinct dire wolf DNA into living, breathing, wolf pups—and the tech used to do it could change conservation and paleontology for good.

A mammoth ivory baton from Hohle Fels Cave in Germany has enabled scientists to figure out how prehistoric people were able to create thick ropes about 35,000 years ago. Researchers ran some fibers ...

British Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves set the Bastet (holy cat) among the (sacrificial) pigeons in 2015. He suggested her tomb may be hiding in plain sight – if it had hastily been repurposed for the ...

What if the best way to understand a 2,000-year-old burned scroll is to make one yourself and set it on fire? Scientists did just that to investigate how writing might be recovered from carbonised ...

For thousands of years, the ancient Egyptian civilization cultivated a rich, diverse network of cultural, socioeconomic, and architectural achievements. Its influence was so widespread that ...