What’s more, equating darkness with evil and goodness with light may be a relatively recent invention. Edensor links it to ...

Dozens of mysterious structures across the Northern Hemisphere – some nearly 5,000 years old – align precisely to frame the ...

Email [email protected] Thousands of revellers have gathered at Stonehenge to mark winter solstice.On average, Brits will experience seven and a half hours of daylight today, making it the ...

Researchers analyzed 333 Italian centenarians and compared their genetic composition to 103 ancient genomes to investigate ...

Scientists discover Bronze Age plague DNA in 4,000-year-old sheep remains, shedding light on how ancient diseases spread ...

A 476,000-year-old wooden structure uncovered in Zambia predates Homo sapiens by centuries, showcasing ancient construction ...

Christmas is a Christian holiday that observes the birth of Jesus. Or that Santa Claus is inspired by the acts of kindness of ...

Our hunter-gatherer ancestors have given us many things. They passed down mastery of fire for cooking and early survival ...

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

These out-of-place artifacts, or OOPArts, are surprising for their place and time — but there's an explanation behind each ...

These genomes are the oldest yet found of modern humans in Europe, though they were not the first hominids to walk these ...