A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and ...

A melting ice patch in the Rocky Mountains uncovered an ancient forest, and these trees have stories to tell about dynamic ...

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New research suggests that the first Indo-European speakers lived in southern Russia 6,500 years ago, challenging ...

Million-year-old air preserved in ancient ice holds clues to a mystery that has stumped scientists for decades.

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Luke Farritor, a University of Nebraska undergrad, made headlines by decoding ancient Herculaneum scrolls using artificial ...

Ancient DNA analysis reveals that sheep were domesticated over 11,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent. By 8,000 years ago, ...

Sheep have been intertwined with human livelihoods for over 11,000 years. As well as meat, their domestication led to humans ...

Researchers have recreated the famous hominin’s running form – and it doesn’t look like she’d have won any marathons ...