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The artefacts recovered from the Mediterranean Sea build on what we already know about the ancient city of Canopus ...

Roughly 10,000 years ago, humans started shifting from being nomadic hunter-gatherers to building large agricultural ...

The discovery unearthed hundreds of pits used to produce blades. It is thought to confirm the reality of a people written ...

Some residents who couldn't afford to resettle elsewhere returned to the city, where they occupied the upper floors of ...

The Sea People were a mysterious coalition of seafaring marauders whose raids played a pivotal role in the collapse of the ...

Ancient Dental Plaque Unearths Prehistoric People’s Lifestyle DNA extracted from fossilized tartar helped scientists reconstruct early humans' oral microbiota, shedding light on their health and ...

There was no one type of slavery in ‘biblical’ or ‘ancient’ societies, given how varied they were. But much of what ...

Ancient rice remains were recently found in Guam's Ritidian Site Complex. The remains date back 3,500 years, marking the earliest evidence of rice in Oceania.

For thousands of years, humanity has looked up to the sky every August to watch the Perseids meteor shower streak through it in brilliant fashion.

Archaeologists uncovered ancient puppet-like figurines. Estimated to be around 2,400 years old, they oddly resemble modern ...