Madison, Georgia is what happens when preservation meets perfection, creating a town so visually stunning that your camera roll will hate you for the storage space you’re about to consume.

As researchers discover overlooked tattoos on mummies from around the world, it's prompting new insights about some of the ...

As archaeologists slowly excavate this ancient statue from the earth, they are, in a sense, awakening a witness to humanity's earliest attempts to comprehend the cosmos and to communicate with the ...

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Sikinos (ancient Oinoe or Oenoe) is one of the smaller islands of Greece, located in the southern part of the archipelago ...

India’s history is undeniably ancient, with the Indus Valley Civilization, Vedic period, and later empires forming the ...

Archaeologists uncovered 2,900-year-old Scythian animal-style art in Siberia, revealing the origins of early steppe nomadic ...

In a 1970 National Geographic feature, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey—son of Louis and Mary Leakey—recounted his discovery of a nearly complete Australopithecus boisei skull (now Paranthropus ...

Lead is often thought of as a modern toxin, but a new study has found that it's been haunting us and our ancestors for almost 2 million years. Stranger still, exposure could actually have given humans ...

An international study changes the view that exposure to the toxic metal lead is largely a post-industrial phenomenon. The research reveals that our human ancestors were periodically exposed to lead ...

Prehistoric hominids have been exposed to poisonous lead for at least 2 million years, a study of fossil teeth suggests, and modern humans may have evolved to cope with the toxic metal better than our ...