In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re ...

Archaeologists uncovered 11,000-year-old pottery in Mongolia, pushing back the timeline of human innovation by nearly 2,000 ...

An abandoned department store that was due to be redeveloped turned out to be treasure trove of artifacts and human remains ...

The barrier islands off the coast of Georgia are littered with millions of oysters left behind by Indigenous peoples. New ...

There's still a lot left to learn when it comes to ancient history, and scientists are still finding locations long since ...

Ancient housing data shows that wealth inequality often followed land monopolization but was sometimes curbed by inclusive ...

Wealth inequality began over 10,000 years ago, gradually increasing after the advent of agriculture due to population growth ...

On an Egyptian desert rock ridge west of Alexandria and between the Mediterranean sea and Lake Mariout is Kom el-Nugus, an ...

If the archaeological record has been correctly interpreted, stone alignments in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge are remnants of shelters built 1.7 million years ago by Homo habilis, an extinct species ...

Wealth inequality began shaping human societies more than 10,000 years ago, long before the rise of ancient empires or the invention of writing. That’s according to a new study led by Washington State ...

A GROUNDBREAKING discovery of two mummies has revealed a previously unknown human ancestor from over ... Planck Institute in Germany unearthed the ancient mummified corpses in Libya.

Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. An intriguing object my husband and I saw during our ...