Scientists may have cracked the case of whether a seven-million-year-old fossil could walk upright. A new study found strong anatomical evidence that Sahelanthropus tchadensis was bipedal, including a ...

A reader submitted a suggestion to facilitate water transfer to Arizona. A Western water expert and an infrastructure ...

The Earth is four and a half billion years old, so why they started appearing then is unknown, as is the mechanism to make ...

In the deserts of Ethiopia, scientists uncovered fossils showing that early members of our genus Homo lived side by side with a newly identified species of Australopithecus nearly three million years ...

The fourth-century residential city in the western desert is one of two major archaeological finds announced by Egypt on ...

Once it was clear that the finding was most likely real, the team took a closer look at the chemistry of the material nearest ...

Earth was once covered by a global magma ocean, which later cooled and crystallised – now traces of this primordial event ...

This weekend, the United States of America will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. And if you’re like me, that can only mean one thing: You’ve been spending most of ...

Intrigue, whining, and negotiations—all these and more can be found in one of the greatest troves of ancient diplomatic ...

China's Inner Mongolia is expanding both renewable energy and coal use. Despite the growth of solar and wind farms, coal ...

Archaeologists in Mexico discovered a mysterious Indigenous settlement dating back some 1,400 years. While excavating in ...

The exhibition is the product of the British Museum in Your Classroom programme where schools get access to the institution’s ...