In an excerpt from his new book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean explores a weird and wild '90s experiment to replicate ancient ...

Physical proof of barbaric Iron Age ritual killings has been discovered in a field near Bere Regis, in Dorset, after archaeologists uncovered two skeletons dated to between 100 and 50 BC.

The computer modeling revealed that prehistoric humans influenced European landscapes through two primary mechanisms: deliberate burning of trees and shrubs to create more open habitats, and hunting ...

Venus figurines, with exaggerated sexual characteristics such as big hips and breasts, began appearing about 40,000 years ago ...

Researchers have recently unearthed coprolites, or fossilized feces, from Mexico’s ‘Cave of the Dead Children’ that date back ...

In the narrow passageways of prehistoric caves, where torchlight once flickered against limestone walls, a quiet record of ...