By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining ...

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

The story of the human race is a story of technology. One of our ancestors created fire and passed that knowledge along to ...

Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has ...

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

Recycling computers and printers can be as easy as bringing them to major retailers such as Best Buy, Office Depot and ...

But while experts now know a fair amount about ancient Egyptian life, they still understand very little about the ...

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

The oldest known Egyptian DNA sample, from a man who lived between 4,500 to 4,800 years ago, offers new insights into the ...

Collection of sophisticated, 300,000-year-old tools found preserved in oxygen-deprived clay by global researchers An ...

That's a recipe for domination of the era, which is exactly what they managed to achieve. Needless to say, it's incredibly rare for several-centuries-old technology to continue to be used today.

Archaeologists have announced the discovery of an ancient city in Peru’s northern Barranca province. The 3,500-year-old city, ...