DNA analysis from two naturally mummified individuals from Libya: More than 7,000 years ago, during the so-called African Humid Period (Green Sahara), a long isolated human lineage existed in North ...

During a visit to Palmyra, reporters found traces of the many forces that had fought over the city and ancient monuments ...

Child sacrifice was thought to be rare in their culture. This chilling discovery suggests foreign invaders played a role.

The discovery of archaic human jawbone shatters assumptions about the geographic limits of the Denisova hominin ...

‘Empire’ derives from the Latin imperium ... The turning point came in AD 376, when tribes of nomadic Huns, savage fighting forces on horseback who Christopher Kelly argues are more likely to have had ...

One monk said his old temple was ‘reduced to heaps of ashes,’ as the fires continue to rage across the country The birthplace of the Buddha beckons worshipers from around the world, as well as ...