Some 50,000 people visit St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City daily. The 500-year-old structure, with its 448-foot-high dome, ...

For nearly 30 million years, a 2,000-pound beast known as the entelodont ruled a sweeping empire from Mongolia to what is now ...

Archaeological evidence shows the Magdalenian people from 18,000 years ago likely were engaged in cannibalism. As part of the practice, experts believe whole-body manipulation focused on the ...

In the 1900s, companies in India turned to fine artists to channel their creativity and give their brand its identity with a ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the ...

Sediment cores from the Aegean Sea reveal that human-driven lead contamination began 5,200 years ago—much earlier than expected. This pollution is tied to shifts in economy and land use, culminating ...

Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — ...

The cache included swords, spears, lances and chainmail. Researchers think these items may have been buried as part of a ...

Researchers made the new discoveries during field work at the Bronze Age site of Kurd Qaburstan. The research provides insights into regional heritage and fills gaps in knowledge about how ancient ...

There is increasing evidence to suggest that symbolic and abstract thought may have deep evolutionary roots and was not exclusive to modern humans.

Our contemporary celebration of Valentine’s Day has been steered by greeting card companies, jewelers and all sorts of enterprising businesses. The idea for celebrating the concept of love is not ...

A paleontologist journeys through Indonesia’s Riau Archipelago in search of our earliest ancestors, and uncovers how ...