It sounds like one of those internet facts that can’t possibly be right, but it is. Cleopatra, the last active ruler of ancient Egypt, actually lived closer in time to the 1969 Moon landing than to ...

Fixing the timeline of human history has been one of archeology’s most exciting — and frustrating — endeavors. In part, that’s because scientists have limited fossil evidence to help them put a pin on ...

The math doesn’t add up—and new evidence suggests humans were crossing open oceans tens of thousands of years earlier than we thought ...

Traces of urine left by humans and domesticated animals who lived in central Turkey’s Aşıklı Höyük settlement some 10,000 years ago are helping archaeologists rewrite the timeline of early agriculture ...