The lives and craft of ancient Egyptian artisans are the subject of a new exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum. Sketch showing a stonemason at work, holding a chisel ...

Teeth provide a wealth of information about the lives of Iron Age Italians, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS One by Roberto Germano of Sapienza University of Rome, Italy ...

Explore the fascinating daily life in Ancient Pompeii, a Roman city perfectly preserved by Vesuvius. Discover homes, markets, and rituals frozen in time. U ...

One of the artifacts on display is an urgent order for four windows that dates to between 1295 and 1186 B.C.E. © Musée du Louvre, Dist. GrandPalaisRmn. Photo Franck ...

Nearly 800,000 years ago, early humans gathered along the shores of a lush lake in what is now northern Israel. Here, they returned again and again, hunting large animals, cooking fish over controlled ...

The strongest hints yet that Mars once hosted living microbes are no longer theoretical models or ambiguous chemistry. They are etched into a single, oddly speckled rock in an ancient riverbed, where ...

A newly discovered microbe living inside ancient stromatolite communities may offer a rare look at how complex life first emerged. Researchers captured the first direct images of an Asgard archaeon ...

One day in the third century B.C., the sanctuary was abandoned forever. And no one knows why. And investigating those questions might reshape not only our understanding of women at the time, but ...

What would you expect to find within a permanently frozen Antarctic lake? As if the name Lake Enigma wasn’t mysterious enough, polar scientists have just discovered unique microbial groups living ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nov. 14—Origins Hall at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science has closed to make room for a new hall named "Ancient ...

For centuries, the image of the ancient Egyptian princess has been shaped by ideas of ceremony, beauty and royal privilege. But a new scientific study suggests that some princesses of the Middle ...