The hotly anticipated new museum boasts some of the greatest treasures of antiquity. But there are some notable exceptions.

A telltale hint was on the bee’s knees. An analysis of 127 fossil flowers, flower buds and bees from central Germany revealed pollen particles that precisely matched ancient flowers to their ...

Ancient bones, artifacts and texts offer numerous insights into the past, as does the chewing gum that Neolithic people chewed on and spat out long ago. Analysis of lumps of birch bark tar from ...

After a nearly two-year delay that frustrated First Nations and cost taxpayers more than half a million dollars, archeologists this week are finally beginning to investigate a site on a Riverdale ...

Researchers have unearthed South America’s first amber deposits containing ancient insects in an Ecuadorian quarry, offering a rare 112-million-year-old glimpse into life on the supercontinent ...

NEWPORT NEWS — Cookbooks, Bibles, bestsellers, and even a guide to belly dancing were among the roughly 150 books mixed in with trash next to a Main Street Library dumpster Friday morning. According ...

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NEW ORLEANS — There is a mystery that archeologists and anthropologists are trying to solve. That mystery starts with a find in the backyard of a local home and will soon end in a city about an hour ...

In a study published in the International Journal of Paleopathology, Dr. Victoria Romano and her colleagues analyzed the bones of 189 hunter-gatherers who lived during the Late Holocene (~4000 to 250 ...

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Florida officials voted Tuesday to set aside nearly three acres in downtown Miami as a potential site for the future presidential library of President Donald Trump. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and ...

Fossils, artifacts, and ruins give us glimpses into our past—but many questions about early humans remain unanswered. These five mysteries still baffle science today. Donald Trump was just dealt three ...