The ancient peoples of the Philippines and of Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) may have built sophisticated boats and mastered seafaring tens of thousands of years ago—millennia before Magellan, Zheng He, ...

Nearly a year-and-a-half ago human remains were recovered from a peat bog near the village of Bellaghy in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland.

According to research by the British neurophysiologist Peter Fenwick, near-death experiences (NDEs) occur in approximately “10% of people who come close to death, or who survive actual clinical death.

Europeans did not always look the same as they do today. Among the things that have changed are skin tone, which has gotten lighter over time.

Egyptian authorities have revealed a significant archaeological breakthrough, which is the discovery of the long-lost tomb of King Thutmose II, who ruled Egypt for a short time around 1,480 BC.

Archaeologists have uncovered what is now considered the oldest known section of the Great Wall of China—one of the most iconic structures on earth—dating back nearly 300 years earlier than previously ...

Nobody seems to have noticed the significance of the locations in St Paul’s missionary journey other than to note that there were Jewish communities in those locations.

A remarkable archaeological discovery near Jerusalem is reshaping our understanding of ascetic religious practices and traditions in the Byzantine era.

Archaeologists have created a new model to help identify archaeological bear baiting assemblages in England and beyond, illuminating a practice that was still shockingly common just three centuries ag ...

The news media is abuzz lately about Greenland, an Arctic territory just east of Canada and part of the kingdom of Denmark.

At the Battle of Issus, fought in early November 333 BC, Alexander faced the Persian King Darius in person for the first time.

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to a new model for how intelligent life developed on Earth.The model, which up ...