Ancient Greece’s sculptures are a cornerstone of world art, studied for their lasting influence on culture and artistic ...

Although the Greeks and Romans linked environmental harm with climate change to a more limited extent than we do today, they ...

Ancient Greek thinkers, from Hesiod to Plato, and later Rousseau saw in the noble savage a vision of lost divine harmony and ...

Deep in South Africa, a ring of ancient stones stands shrouded in mystery. Some claim it’s over 200,000 years old - the work ...

Modern humans inherited part of their ancestry from multiple, genetically distinct Denisovan groups through interbreeding ...

Another surprising finding from this study concerns the ancient Jomon people from the Japanese archipelago and the ...

From towering apes to the legends of human folklore, the idea of giants has haunted history. Fossil evidence and myth collide in the story of mysterious creatures that may have once ruled North ...

Homo sapiens remains found in a cave in West Sumatra are among the proof used by Culture Minister Fadli Zon to support his ‘Out of Nusantara’ hypothesis, which suggests that ancient humans may have ...

Imagine early humans meticulously crafting stone tools for nearly 300,000 years, all while contending with recurring ...

Researchers uncovered a 2.75–2.44 million-year-old site in Kenya showing that early humans maintained stone tool traditions for nearly 300,000 years despite extreme climate swings. The tools, ...

The site sits within sediments that record major environmental upheaval in East Africa during the late Pliocene. Around 3.44 ...

Modern technology, new excavations and curious amateurs have helped unearth some of the world's greatest treasures in the ...