Archaeology
Artifacts found in a Mexican cave are about 30,000 years old.
Bird statuette, recovered from a refuse heap, more than doubles the age of the earliest known animal sculpture from East Asia.
New find raises questions regarding size and timing of large settlements in Central America.
Pendants made from cave bear teeth are among the items found with the earliest modern human fossils in a cave in Bulgaria.
New research indicates that new technologies emerged on the island separately from Eurasian innovations.
New dating of a trove of fossils suggests our cousin hominin went extinct because of climate change.
Wood from the foundation of a 2,000-year-old building in Rome traced to a mountain forest in what is now France.
Recently uncovered archaeological evidence matches the Bible's account of Babylonian invasion 2,600 years ago.
Artifacts found in Idaho support theory that humans reached the Americas before a land route to Asia existed.
The fate of battleship remains may rest in the hands of countries that don't own the ships.
Violence and disease -- but also art and culture -- accompanied humanity's movement into increasingly populated areas.
A newly analyzed jawbone is the first confirmed Denisovan fossil found anywhere outside Siberia.