ROME, Dec 5 (Reuters) - While slaves in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii were considered no more than "speaking tools", some ...

Cornwall has several stone circles, and as many as 800 sit across the United Kingdom, remnants of prehistoric people who ...

The royal symbol on the newly discovered figurines solves a long-standing mystery by identifying who was buried in the ...

"Some of our ancestors were very skilled observers." A team of international researchers say they've uncovered new data on ...

Plant species mentioned in texts from the past 800 years hint the wooded grasslands of western India have been there since ...

After theorizing on the fossilized bird’s cause of death, the paleontologists decided on the new species’ name: Chromeornis ...

The elongated skull was likely caused by a genetic condition, but it evidently didn’t get in the way of the individual’s ...

Based on genetic material preserved in birch bark tar from Estonia, researchers found that the teen likely had brown hair and ...

Around 120 million years ago, a bird swallowed over 800 tiny stones and choked to death as a result. Paleontologists aren’t ...

Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...

In the Ecuadorian Andes, young Otavalo Indigenous people are using anime to inspire pride in their culture and language.

Earth's atmosphere might have contributed to the origin of life more than previously thought. In a study published in the ...