Understanding how ancient species arranged themselves in space is a key puzzle in paleoecology, but direct evidence of how ...

While Guinness World Records officially lists the Djoser Step pyramid in Egypt as the world’s oldest pyramid (around 2,630 BC), one paper published in October claimed a layer of the Gunung Padang ...

A groundbreaking discovery has revealed the complete genome of a man who lived in Ancient Egypt over 4,500 years ago, during ...

An Egyptian genome has finally been unraveled, thanks to a sample from an at least 4,500 year-old mummy dating back to the pyramids.

Scientists Built a Canoe Using Only Prehistoric Tools. Then They Sailed the Dangerous 140-Mile Route Early Humans Traveled 30,000 Years Ago Five paddlers journeyed from Taiwan to Japan’s ...

Japanese researchers turned to “experimental archaeology” to study how ancient humans navigated powerful ocean currents and migrated offshore.

Researchers have explored how early modern humans migrated by sea from Taiwan to southern Japan approximately 30,000 years ago. To unravel the mysteries of these difficult ancient voyages, the ...

30,000-year-old sea voyage recreated with canoe built using ancient stone tools A 7.5-meter (25-foot) dugout canoe was made using replicas of ancient stone tools.

TOKYO – A Japanese team has concluded that it was possible to travel from Taiwan to Japan's westernmost island of Yonaguni in a dugout canoe 30,000 years ago. The voyage, in a log boat with no sails, ...

Squids first appeared about 100 million years ago and quickly rose to become dominant predators in the ancient oceans, according to a study published in the journal Science.

Genetic analysis of skeletons buried in a Neolithic proto-city in Turkey reveals that female lineages were important in early agricultural societies.