Proteins degrade over time, making their history hard to study. But new research has uncovered ancient proteins in the enamel ...

The earliest ever human DNA from Scandinavia is set to help humans know about the elusive people who first settled in the ...

Across history, ancient civilizations crafted prototypes for many of the modern mechanisms that have become integral to ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

University of Maryland scientists have found remnants of an ancient seafloor buried deep within Earth’s mantle, offering a ...

For the first time, scientists have sequenced the oldest and complete DNA set of an ancient Egyptian man, dating to when the ...

Old World, High Tech An ancient Greek calendar was ahead of its time. Eric Jaffe. December 2006. Get our newsletter! ... Physical evidence of an ancient technology is rare, ...

East Asian Paleolithic voyagers may have used dugout canoes to cross one of the strongest currents in the world.

The large flying reptiles known as pterosaur preyed on primitive fish that would have hard scale armour covering them.

As technology marches on, some people get trapped using decades-old software and devices. Here's a look inside the strange, stubborn world of obsolete Windows machines.

Eleven students took a 2,000-year-old rice recipe and combined it with modern technology, resurrecting a dish that may inspire new culinary innovations.