A 113-million-year-old hell ant fossil discovered in northeastern Brazil's Crato Formation represents the oldest known ant specimen in the fossil record. The remarkable preservation reveals ...

Fixing the timeline of human history has been one of archeology’s most exciting — and frustrating — endeavors. In part, that’s because scientists have limited fossil evidence to help them put a pin on ...

New scientific work is quietly redrawing the master timeline of ancient Egypt, shifting key dynasties and even the start of the New Kingdom by decades. By combining cutting edge radiocarbon analysis ...

Archaeologists have discovered ancient tools and bones in China that, once again, shake up the timeline of the human origin story. The items are more than two million years old, indicating that early ...