The modern-day Bo people of southeastern China have long maintained that they had no connection to those inside the hanging ...

People buried in "hanging coffins" thousands of years ago in China and Southeast Asia have finally been identified through ...

New archaeological evidence is helping rewrite old myths about disabled people in the ancient world.

This image provided by William Usaquen and Andrea Casas-Vargas shows the high plains in Bogota, Colombia where a new group of humans lived 6,000 years ago. (William Usaquen, Andrea Casas-Vargas via AP ...

In a recent study, researcher Dr. Hui Zhou and his colleagues conducted a genetic analysis of the genomes of individuals ...

A facial reconstruction was made using a 3D scan of the Egyptian man's skull. - Caroline Wilkinson, Liverpool John Moores University In a long-sought first, researchers have sequenced the entire ...

Aside from their love of the sea, the ancient Greeks and Vikings shared much more that united them and divided them.

Hunter-gatherers at Poverty Point may have built its massive earthworks not under the command of chiefs, but as part of a vast, temporary gathering of egalitarian communities seeking spiritual harmony ...

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

Greek statues are admired worldwide for their extraordinary beauty, but do they truly reflect the actual appearance of the ...

"Ancient Food and Flavor" at the Penn Museum features outdoor raised beds with plantings of the types of foods that would have been in ancient Peru, Switzerland, and Jordan. (Peter Crimmins/WHYY) ...

Wilson said the class’s development of combining physical skills and critical thinking allows students to develop their ...