With its low quantities of rain and soaring high temperatures, the Sahara Desert is often regarded as one of the most extreme and least habitable environments on Earth. While the Sahara was ...

Located 2,300 miles off the coast of Chile and dotted with huge stone heads, remote Easter Island has long been a place of mystery. The traditional narrative of its history suggests that it was ...

"A plague is upon us'' may have been a common phrase in ancient Jordan, where countless people perished from a mysterious malady that would shape both a society and an era of civilization. Now, an ...

Ancient civilizations could have benefited, and at times suffered from belonging to an interconnected global economy, according to evidence presented in a newly-published study. The international team ...

Recent archaeological discoveries have unveiled ruins believed to be part of a civilization dating back 20,000 years, challenging our understanding of human history. These findings compel researchers ...

The Fort Ancient culture lived in southern Ohio and parts of Indiana, Kentucky and West Virginia between A.D. 1000 and 1650. These American Indian groups lived in large villages, grew maize in their ...

An ancient temple at Hedegård is shedding light on an elite society with far-reaching trade links in Iron Age Denmark.

In a new paper, researchers discuss the importance of scent in human history and address how and why experts might investigate smells from the past. In a new call for action paper published in Nature ...

An ancient civilisation in the Americas passed on power only to those born from elite women, new DNA evidence has shown. The society, which lived in New Mexico's Chaco Canyon, ruled the area from ...

Map location and satellite aerial imagery showing the region and landscape where ancient societies and Garamantes lived. Image from NASA/Luca Pietranera. Pittsburgh, Pa., USA: With its low quantities ...

In recent years, millions of people worldwide have suffered the loss of smell due to COVID-19. Even those who have avoided infection with the new coronavirus experience the world of scent differently ...