Discover how droughts contributed to the Barbarian Conspiracy invasion and affected Roman control in southern Britain.

Ancient Greek physician Hippocrates was first to use the word hysteria, from the Greek hysteron (uterus), for an ailment that affected women.

Latnija cave discoveries show Mesolithic humans crossed 100 km of sea to reach Malta 1,000 years earlier than previously ...

A 16-million-year-old ant, trapped in Dominican amber, sheds light on the evolution of an inconspicuous species. This ...

While interhuman relationships may go back to the early years of humanity, there is one ritual known the world over that has a much more recent history ... embraced by the ancient Hebrews ...

Researchers have precisely dated key fossil sites in Central Anatolia, Türkiye, to 7-10 million years ago using a new ...

What roils beneath the Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean circulation, climate patterns, and even animal activity and evolution. In ...

A piece of amber from the early Miocene was discovered in the northern mines of the Santiago Providence of the Dominican Republic and then deposited in a natural history museum, according to a study ...

From the location of the “place of skulls” to ancient Jewish burial rites, here’s what archaeologists do—and don’t—know about ...