At the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, the archaeology department has over 1 million artifacts from all over the ...

Forty-one millennia ago, deep inside a Belgian cave, Neanderthals left behind a disturbing legacy. Mixed in with the ...

Associate Professor Elmira Jafarova, Leading Researcher at the Department of History and Theory of Archaeological Heritage of ...

Human faces are famously flatter than those of other primates. Neanderthals, by contrast, had prominent, projecting midfaces ...

One of Scotland's most eminent historians claims that the nation has suffered due to the collapse in support for traditional ...

Archaeologists in Mexico uncover ancient square-shaped skulls, revealing unique cranial practices in the Huasteca region.

The material used to build the Temple of Venus in Naples has remarkably endured even as Earth's surface around it sank from ...

Scientists have discovered that a mysterious foot found in Ethiopia belonged to a previously unknown ancient relative similar ...

Many of the university’s more than 8,000 international students will not return home this Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, unlike their ...

Unfinished moai attached to bedrock by “keels” along their backs demonstrate how carvers worked underneath from both sides until figures were separated from the source material. This production stage, ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com. Many people believe that we humans have ...

The ability to perform a skill that artificial intelligence and machines can’t replicate is deeply human because these skills ...