Meanwhile, early dog trade might stretch even further back than the new studies indicate. To find remains from the first ...

Barcelona might dominate travel wishlists, but the Mediterranean coastline is full of port cities with deeper history, richer ...

Researchers have discovered a mysterious and previously-unknown population that flourished in present-day Argentina for ...

People have been choosing plant-based diets for thousands of years, for reasons that go far beyond food fads. From ancient ...

Rather than being a recent cultural development, kissing may have been practised by other early humans like Neanderthals and ...

A new study led by the University of Oxford has found evidence that kissing evolved in the common ancestor of humans and ...

The printing press helped build libraries that were impossibly large by ancient standards. That created its own new ...

Human influence across centuries continues to define biodiversity and carbon storage in the world's largest rainforest, ...

Ancient Persians believed the sky was blue because it reflected a massive sapphire beneath the Earth, giving the stone cosmic symbolism. Kings, priests, and rulers wore sapphires to signal wisdom, ...

Using AI and advanced chemistry, scientists uncovered 3.3-billion-year-old chemical traces that mark the earliest evidence of ...

Ancient lentils preserved in volcanic silos link modern Canarian crops to 2,000-year-old North African origins. Lentils cultivated in the Canary Islands today have roots that extend nearly 2,000 years ...

The researchers’ simulations reveal that these continental shelves expanded dramatically. Over roughly 350 million years, the ...