Beneath the surface of present-day western Honduras lie the ruins of Copán—an archaeological site that once stood as a vital ...

Scientists have identified a new pod of ancient hunter-gatherers who lived near the land bridge between North America and ...

By studying proteins preserved in teeth, researchers determined the sex of four Paranthropus robustus individuals that lived ...

For more than 100,000 years, coastal communities have harvested abalone (genus Haliotis). These gastropods, which are found ...

Palynologists who study tiny pollen fossils share 4 stories found in grains that fell hundreds to millions of years ago.

An ancient DNA study co-authored by Brown archaeologist Peter van Dommelen illustrates the complexity of human migration and ...

The ancient Greek word daimon—from which the ... cathartic place to see modern interpretations of exorcisms, but for the real history, it’s always best to turn to the dogma.

The Atlantic has a fascinating deep dive into khipus — long cords that the Inca tied knots into to preserve information. Few ...

You do not have to go too far back to find great (or just popular) movies based on books. We have seen many a cinematic ...

His unexplored tomb at Nemrut Dağ may show us more about death and worship in ancient Turkey ... to Antiochus I is unparalleled in the history of Commagene. Antiochus’s father, Mithridates ...