Throughout history, China has maintained a deep connection with ice and snow. Beyond simply enduring the harsh cold winter ...

In the Arizona desert, researchers are uncovering extraordinary details about the peoples who have inhabited this land since ...

Archaeologists have discovered Bronze Age footprints near Pompeii, showing people and animals fleeing a Vesuvius eruption millennia before 79 C.E.—foreshadowing the devastation that would later ...

Ancient DNA analysis provides new insights into our linguistic roots. Where did the Indo-European language family originate?

For decades, the leading theory for the ubiquity of Indo–European languages was that early farmers, living in a region known ...

New research suggests that the first Indo-European speakers lived in southern Russia 6,500 years ago, challenging ...

Casarabe people grew the nutritious crop year-round on savannas thanks to networks of drainage canals and ponds.

That was the case recently when a remarkable discovery from the Copper Age was made during an otherwise routine dig for a new ...

Young people donning traditional Vietnamese costumes in ancient styles during a parade of the ‘Tet Viet - Tet Pho 2025’ program in Hanoi, January 19, 2025. Photo: Nguyen Hien / Tuoi Tre More than 400 ...

The domestication of maize is one of the greatest examples of humankind's impact on evolution. Early farmers' pre-industrial plant breeding choices turned corn from a nearly inedible crop into the ...

We Might Feel Love in Our Fingertips But Did the Ancient Mesopotamians? Dec. 4, 2024 — A multidisciplinary team of researchers studied a large body of texts to find out how people in the ancient ...

Recent scientific reevaluations of remains have historians rethinking the prevalence of women fighters throughout history.