The Dolní Věstonice Portrait Head features a woman’s face with carefully engraved details like her eyes, nose, mouth and ...

Explore the intriguing findings from the Maszycka Cave in Poland. Discover the evidence of ancient humans being consumed by ...

Early Europeans known as the Magdalenians celebrated by removing the ears of their enemies, scooping out their brains, and ...

This week, explore decoded words from charred ancient scrolls, meet heroic frog daddies, see Grand Canyon-size lunar features ...

This week, the earliest runestone ever to be reliably dated may have been carved by a woman, a “gorilla-like” human relative that lived some 1.4 million years ago has been revealed by a jawbone, and ...

I was used to a disembodied way of working: identify a philosophical problem, then study it. What could spending time with a ...

The striking public art exhibition of Huma Bhabha at Brooklyn Bridge Park with the Public Art Fund features four haunting ...

Hundreds of vendors from dozens of countries converged in Tucson, Arizona, for the annual Gem and Mineral Show, where the ...

"Our ancestors saw wetlands as mystical places where they could connect with their gods and the Otherworld." A 1,600-year-old ...

One of the greatest architectural achievement of Scotland's Neolithic builders has to be the 5000 year old chambered tomb of Maes Howe in Orkney. The builders of the chambered cairn known as Maes Howe ...

Sri Lanka is becoming a tourism hotspot for Ayurvedic medicine. Autumn Phillips discusses her experience of yoga, meditation and retreats in her latest column.

The bones and skulls were found strewn among animal remains, a burial that was meant to humiliate a conquered rival even after defeat ...