Scientists have extracted the oldest RNA molecules out of a woolly mammoth, gaining a snapshot into the processes at work in ...

This video explores how ancient civilizations built things so advanced that even modern science cannot explain them. From ...

Paleolithic tools found at the Namorotukunan site in Kenya suggest that early Homo species kept their technology going even ...

A Kenyan site reveals early humans made and used the same Oldowan stone tools for 300,000 years, showing remarkable stability ...

Three of the mammoth samples yielded ancient RNA fragments, particularly the sample from Yuka. Previously assumed to be a female mammoth, their analysis showed that Yuka had fragments of RNA from ...

“Our findings, combined with prior research, indicate that opium use was more than accidental or sporadic in ancient Egyptian ...

The Virtual Museum of Ancient Inventions is a project that was begun by students in the course Ancient Inventions, first taught by Marjorie Senechal, which was offered at Smith from 1997 through 2004.

New evidence is emerging in Kenya of early humans crafting stone tools for nearly 300,000 years during the Pliocene, despite ...

As the saying went, all roads once led to Rome — and scientists now say those roads stretched 50% longer than previously ...