T he ancient Romans took bathing seriously—it was a crucial facet of their daily lives, and people from a range of social ...

Dr. Rowan Martindale, a paleoecologist and geobiologist at the University of Texas at Austin, was walking through the Dadès Valley in the Central High Atlas Mountains of Morocco when she saw something ...

New research indicates that humans shaped their environments through hunting and controlled use of fire tens of thousands of years before agriculture emerged. According to the study’s co-authors, the ...

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Clues from studies of ancient plants and animals have helped archaeologists pin down where the last Neanderthals found refuge ...

A DNA analysis of human remains found that two medieval men were buried in a peculiar position at a ritualistic site from the ...

Wisconsin Historical Society researchers have uncovered 16 ancient canoes in Lake Mendota, some of which are thousands of ...

One of the best-preserved ancient Roman homes on the Palatine Hill is opening to the public for the first time.

Sleep is one of life’s most universal behaviors. Despite its ubiquity, it’s also one of the most mysterious. Humans spend ...

For more than a century, biologists assumed that the bony plates embedded in the skin of lizards – like natural chain mail – ...

From imperial residences to apartment complexes and temples, these hidden sites offer a new window into Rome's layered past.