For most people, the word mummy immediately conjures images of ancient Egypt, gilded pharaohs and elaborate tombs along the ...

Did a major epidemic of plague trigger a prolonged collapse in Europe’s population in late neolithic times – from around 5,600 to 4,000 years ago? In Europe, the neolithic is part of the Stone Age, ...

The screening of 'We Are Hadza' at the ZIFF Main Venue, located behind Mizingani Hotel in Stone Town, unfolded in a mood that felt both ceremonial and quietly intimate. As evening settled over the ...

Amenities include library, yoga studio and more, with Fairfield Community Health Center providing on-site medical care The Reserve at Hunter Trace is located at 150 Trace Drive LANCASTER − Those 55 ...

You don’t need to look far on these islands to find Stone Age burial sites, but the places where Guernsey’s first inhabitants ...

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A new statistical study challenges one of archaeology's longest-standing assumptions, raising fresh questions about how North ...

David Samson is associate professor of evolutionary anthropology at the University of Toronto, Canada. His research ...

Plague victims far older than any previously known have been found in Siberia, and the details of how they died are chilling.

I eat beef every day, twice a day,” Kennedy boasted to the hooting crowd. The secretary’s beef-intensive diet, which is ...

Just 10 years ago, almost 60 percent of Americans said they had a lot of confidence in higher education. By last year, that ...

A study in Nature reports that plague was killing people near Lake Baikal in East Siberia roughly 5,500 years ago.