A double burial found in southern Italy more than 60 years ago has just yielded a striking new secret: ancient DNA has confirmed a rare inherited form of dwarfism in a teenage girl who lived around 12 ...

Everything you ever wanted to know about Ancient Egypt. Dan is joined by Dr Campbell Price, Curator of Egypt and Sudan at the ...

One of over 57,000 known archaeological sites in the province, Tse'k'wa is a record of 12,500 years of human settlement and ...

Who was the greatest Pharaoh of ancient Egypt? Was 'Rameses the Great' really that great or just an excellent self-promoter? He reigned for 66 years and marked a golden era of prosperity, ...

Discover the best museums in Mexico City, from pre-Hispanic collections to modernist and contemporary institutions shaping ...

Archaeologists from the French National Institute of Preventive Archaeological Science (Inrap) have discovered a large ...

Being born is the most universal of human experiences. But we don't talk about the history of childbirth. So author Lucy ...

The world's oldest rock art discovered in a cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi may shed light on the early migration routes of modern humans and the settlement of Australia. The found image is ...

Discover the evolution of journals from ancient Mesopotamian records to personal diaries like Samuel Pepys and Anne Frank's, ...

Nagpur: Nagpur University (NU) on Saturday laid the foundation stone of the proposed Tribal History Museum, a landmark ...

Kirsty Coventry, the multi-Olympic swimming champion who last year became the first woman to lead the International Olympic ...

Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...