Also known as Norte Chico, the Caral civilization existed almost 5,000 years ago, placing the Andean culture alongside the ...

Archaeological evidence shows that ancient people ate bread, beer and other carbs, long before domesticated crops. Listen to an audio version of a recent Nature feature.

A study reveals new information about ancient people in the Caribbean, studying genetic linkages, migration patterns, and civilization formation.

The artefacts recovered from the Mediterranean Sea build on what we already know about the ancient city of Canopus ...

There was no one type of slavery in ‘biblical’ or ‘ancient’ societies, given how varied they were. But much of what ...

Researchers analyzed the genomes of 524 never before-studied ancient people, including the first genome of an individual from the ancient Indus Valley Civilization. Insights answer longstanding ...

Silver and gold tubes discovered at a burial mound in the Caucasus may be the oldest-known drinking straws. Archaeologists think ancient people used these three-foot straws to drink beer from a ...

Over the next two weeks, archaeologists and volunteers with Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust (PKHT) ) are digging at two ...

He added: "Until now you couldn't test people for ancient DNA ancestry because commercial microarrays, such as the ones used for genetic genealogy, don't have a lot of markers relevant for ...