Used in a device called a khipu, the hair reveals the owner’s simple diet. Those data now suggest that in Incan society, even some commoners kept records.
The print appears in a red ochre dot, which a Neandertal left on the ‘nose’ of a facelike rock roughly 43,000 years ago.
DNA supports Picuris Pueblo stories of their ancestry going back more than 1,000 years — to the famous Chaco Canyon site.
This is the first skeletal evidence of an ancient Roman gladiator show — or execution — involving an exotic animal.
Through the power of radioactivity, carbon dating can reveal the age of many fossils and artifacts.
Since the discovery of Lucy's skeleton in 1974, a catchy name and ongoing scientific debates have kept this human ancestor in the spotlight.
You may have heard of pyramids built in ancient Egypt — but what about ones built elsewhere in Africa, Europe and the Americas?
Broken bodies found at a house in Pompeii suggest that earthquakes played a role in the legendary tragedy.
A rare muscle stiffening known as a cadaveric spasm might explain the mummy’s open-mouthed expression.
