ROME, Dec 5 (Reuters) - While slaves in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii were considered no more than "speaking tools", some ...

The royal symbol on the newly discovered figurines solves a long-standing mystery by identifying who was buried in the ...

Cornwall has several stone circles, and as many as 800 sit across the United Kingdom, remnants of prehistoric people who ...

What can today's scientists learn about astronomical phenomena from ancient texts?

After theorizing on the fossilized bird’s cause of death, the paleontologists decided on the new species’ name: Chromeornis ...

Plant species mentioned in texts from the past 800 years hint the wooded grasslands of western India have been there since ...

Based on genetic material preserved in birch bark tar from Estonia, researchers found that the teen likely had brown hair and ...

The elongated skull was likely caused by a genetic condition, but it evidently didn’t get in the way of the individual’s ...

Olive oil is the Swiss army knife of foodstuffs. It can dress salads, sauté vegetables, even grease squeaky hinges. And for ...

In the Ecuadorian Andes, young Otavalo Indigenous people are using anime to inspire pride in their culture and language.

The extinct rhinoceros, described in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, is the northernmost rhino known to have ever ...

Earth's atmosphere might have contributed to the origin of life more than previously thought. In a study published in the ...