One of the main pilgrimage centres among Christians in Kerala, this church also gains emphasis due to its religious aspect as ...

The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, has opened an exhibit featuring a collection of ancient ...

Several tombs in the necropolises of Egypt depict figures dancing across the walls and playing instruments. But when ...

Researchers have discovered evidence of the oldest alphabetic writing in human history. The writing was etched onto clay cylinders discovered during a dig at an ancient Syrian city.

Leveraging a unique statistical analysis and applying it to ancient DNA extracted from human skeletal remains, a team of researchers has revealed new insights into how ancient Europeans adapted to ...

Many ancient human ancestors are known from fragments ... (Cleveland Museum of Natural History) As a kid growing up in Connecticut, Johanson got a book from a neighbor that planted an electrifying ...

The 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor known as Lucy sparked a revolution in scientists’ understanding of the origins of ...

On the anniversary of Lucy’s discovery, paleoanthropologists reflect on what she means to science, and what she taught us about ourselves.