Two thousand years on, scholars still don’t agree on the day the destruction of Pompeii began. Two new studies only fan the ...

The Malabathrinum papyrus (P.Vindob. G 35250, Herakleopolis/Middle Egypt, 5th century CE) contains a recipe for an eye ...

This high-status gift is one of the many ways meteoritic iron was revered by ancient civilizations. One of the earliest Egyptian hieroglyphics for iron seems to be derived from a longer phrase ...

A demonstration of my skills as an on-camera presenter. In this case, I address the viewer in the character of Pliny the Elder, the Roman natural historian.

The findings push back the timing of ancient human rainforest occupation "by more than double," said archaeologist Eslem Ben ...

Lunula with geometric decoration from the treasure of Chão de Lamas, in the National Archaeological Museum of Spain (MAN, inv. no. 28588). Credit: Piero Baguzzi / Museo Arqueológico Nacional, ...

For years, rainforests were thought to be barriers to early human survival, but new evidence has shattered this assumption. A ...

The climate and early human societies were changing quickly during the fall of our closest evolutionary relative—and are big ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, rocks crushed under kilometres of ice injected vital nutrients into Earth’s oceans.

Massive glaciers from Earth’s past reshaped the planet in ways that paved the way for complex life. As they moved, they ...

In the third and final installment of News 8’s Elder Voices series ... Q: I want to ask what Black history means to you personally. A: “It clarifies a lot. I can remember that my sons were ...