Researchers say they’ve uncovered new evidence in present-day England that could reshape our understanding of human evolution ...

The oldest evidence for human ancestors using fire, dating back to between 1 million and 1.5 million years ago, comes from a ...

Archaeologists say they have found the oldest known instance of fire setting, a key moment in human evolution.

As far as kitchen staples, you don’t really get much better than olive oil. It can do it all—jazz up a salad, sauté ...

Clues from a digital reconstruction of a lavish ancient home are changing how researchers understand Pompeii’s elite.

An isolated burial in Sudan has revealed the first evidence of an unknown funeral ritual that took place nearly 4,000 years ago in a little-known African kingdom, a new study finds. In the grave, ...

Olive oil is the Swiss army knife of foodstuffs. It can dress salads, sauté vegetables, even grease squeaky hinges. And for ...

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year ...

Archaeologists also discovered the burial of a four-year-old child in close proximity to the woman. The child was crowned with a bronze diadem adorned with small rosettes and dates to the same time ...

A group of scientists are studying the Cyclades, an island group in Greece's Aegean Sea, looking for signs of early human ...

Archaeological evidence from sites like Madjedbebe suggested an arrival date of approximately 65,000 years ago, while genetic analyses consistently pointed to a much more recent timeframe of 47,000 to ...

Ancient DNA has revealed a mysterious Indigenous group that lived in central Argentina for nearly 8,500 years, a new genetic study reports. Although the people of this newfound "deep lineage" lived at ...