Mushrooms have been used by ancient humans for millennia, but archaeologists have only just uncovered their pivotal role in ...

Join us as we document the remarkable process of building a primitive hut deep in the jungle using nothing but natural materials and ancient skills. Watch as two men clear the forest, construct a ...

A study combining the growing number of ancient genomes from living people has given us our best picture yet of how humans have evolved over the past 10,000 years or so. It shows that people in ...

A growing number of ancient Egyptian stone vases are being digitally scanned and analyzed with modern engineering tools. The ...

Two researchers discuss how ancient DNA is used to track how people moved and lived during Britain's bronze age.

According to a new study, any alien civilizations out there? Probably short-lived — and doomed to fail spectacularly. For ...

More than 4,000 years before modern highways and petroleum refineries, Sumerians in ancient Mesopotamia were engineering materials in ways that closely resemble advanced asphalt technology, according ...

He turned “cat burglar” into a job description. A 52‑year‑old man has been charged after an Egyptian cat sculpture and “priceless” artifacts were stolen from an Australian history museum, Queensland ...

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