ROME, Dec 5 (Reuters) - While slaves in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii were considered no more than "speaking tools", some ...

Researchers have counted 16,600 fossilized dinosaur footprints and 1,378 swim tracks at a site in Bolivia that showcase a ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

Wilson said the class’s development of combining physical skills and critical thinking allows students to develop their ...

Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose ...

Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have learned to make fire far earlier than previously believed, after uncovering ...

By Will Dunham Dec 9 (Reuters) - Scientists excavating the ruins of Pompeii have discovered a construction site left frozen ...

If there were a place that could be called the archaeological almanac of Saudi Arabian culture, it would be Tell Abraq, ...

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In the world of ancient manuscripts, scholars often come across texts that have been altered or erased. This technique, called palimpsest, involves carefully scraping off the original writing to make ...

New research reveals a prehistoric shark 115 million years older than Megalodon, rewriting the timeline of shark ancestry.

Some of the ancient buildings, located along China’s mountaintop rivers, dated back to as far as 2800 B.C.E., with others ...