Built between the 9th and 7th centuries BC, the Fortress of Van overlooks the modern-day city of the same name and the ruins ...

Archaeologists in Turkey uncovered a 2,400-year-old Ancient Greek Temple of Zeus in Limyra, solving a decades-old mystery.

Cemented dunes in Gale Crater reveal evidence of late-stage water that may have preserved organic signals beneath the Martian ...

As the saying went, all roads once led to Rome — and a new digital atlas shows that those roads stretched 50% longer than ...

As the saying went, all roads once led to Rome—and those roads stretched 50% longer than previously known, according to a new ...

A Kenyan site reveals early humans made and used the same Oldowan stone tools for 300,000 years, showing remarkable stability ...

We may be witnessing the moment when our ancestors first defied a hostile world, using the same tools in the same place for ...

George Washington University archaeologist David Braun and his colleagues recently unearthed stone tools from a 2.75 ...

Long before cities or farms, the earliest humans were standing in a changing northern Kenyan landscape, striking stone to ...

Before 2.75 million years ago, the Namorotukunan area featured lush wetlands with abundant palms and sedges, with mean annual precipitation reaching approximately 855 millimeters per year. However, ...

“The fossil and plant records tell an incredible story,” said Rahab N. Kinyanjui from the National Museums of Kenya. “As the ...

Long before the first sparks of civilization — or even humanity as we know it — our ancestors were already inventors. On the ...