A 2,000-year-old marble sculpture slated for auction later this month is more than a well-preserved piece of artistic history ...

Detected by the MeerKAT array, this “fast radio burst” comes from 3 billion years after the Big Bang, and could help map the ...

New study suggests that settlement of the Pacific occurred in a migration process with what the authors call a series of ...

The Levant was a busy corridor around a million years ago. Long before it became a place where modern humans and Neanderthals ...

A chopping wound above the eye and more carnage solve a mystery that stumped archeologists for a century.

Was it a dice workshop, a healing ritual, or the Roman Empire’s secret casino?

Scientists say they have identified an extinct crocodile species from about 45 million years ago in the limestone formation ...

Ancient marine reptiles may have swum to shore to vomit, with Jurassic fossils offering a unique glimpse into behaviour that has parallels in living seals and marine crocodiles. More than 20 ...

What may have looked like a cross between a platypus and a beaverlike rodent and lived around 120 million years ago?

Forensic examination of human remains found around the funerary complexes of Ancient Egyptian kings has uncovered evidence ...

The Sphinx is one of ancient Egypt's most enigmatic monuments, and now scientists have found that it could be hiding a very ...