The way Sahelanthropus tchadensis moved has long been debated. The discovery of a small bump on the front of the thigh bone ...

One small artifact opened up a world of discovery of a Neolithic civilization with a remarkably advanced social structure.

The Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU) has announced the documentation and international publication of a scientific discovery ...

Traces of a toxic chemical found on 60,000-year-old arrowheads hint at advanced planning by Palaeolithic hunters.

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Ancient Nubian civilizations practiced something that might shock modern sensibilities - they tattooed the faces of infants and toddlers as young as seven months old. A new study using advanced ...

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Long before humans carved numbers into clay tablets or scratched equations onto stone, people in the ancient Near East were already dividing space, counting patterns, and thinking in mathematical ...

The culprit behind the mysterious disappearance of one of the most advanced urban civilizations at the time, contemporaries to Mesopotamians and Egyptians, has finally been identified: a series of ...

These bewildering out-of-place artifacts, or OOPArts, often seem too advanced for their time and place, leading to wild theories about advanced ancient civilizations and even aliens. Out-of-place ...