Three hundred million years ago, the largest insect ever known to humankind hunted in fern jungles and boasted an enormous ...

Shimao ruins, an important prehistoric site located in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province Photo: Courtesy of National Cultural Heritage Administration . A groundbreaking genetic s ...

Ancient humans weren't always at peace with their environments—misconceptions say that prehistoric civilizations left their ...

A new study published in the Journal of World Prehistory reveals that some of humanity's earliest artistic representations of ...

Archaeologists have discovered what may be the earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making.

The discovery site at East Farm, Barnham, England lies hidden within a disused clay pit tucked away in the wooded landscape between Thetford and Bury St Edmunds. Professor Nick Ashton from the British ...

According to Ding, “Ancient people had superb abilities in navigating nature. With an understanding of currents, wind, stars, ...

A new study published in Nature on November 26 has shed light on the origins, population structures, and kinship systems of ...

Ultimately, these 573 fortresses redefine what we know about northern China’s prehistory. Long before the first emperors ...

A new book argues that civilizations built on centralized wealth and power contain the seeds of their own destruction.

Archaeological evidence from sites like Madjedbebe suggested an arrival date of approximately 65,000 years ago, while genetic analyses consistently pointed to a much more recent timeframe of 47,000 to ...

A remarkable discovery at Orkney's famed Ness of Brodgar site could rewrite the history of ancient Britain, as archaeologists unearth mysterious ruins that defy expectations.