The genomes of two women who lived 7,000 years ago in the Sahara when it was a green savannah reveal a remarkably isolated ...

Archaeologists in China’s Yunnan province unearthed stone tools crafted in a style associated with Neanderthals that hasn’t previously been found in East Asia, study says.

The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History is home to cat mummies as part of ... are among the extraordinary objects that reveal felines’ critical role in ancient Egyptian religious, social, ...

On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks: Brief Narrative of Three Expeditions in Innermost Asia and North-Western China. By Sir Aurel Stein. Pp. xxiv + 342 + 102 plates. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd ...

The notion of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World can be traced back to the fifth century B.C. These creations rivaled many created by nature in their size, majesty, and beauty. Six of the ...