A new radiocarbon study of museum artefacts linked to King Ahmose suggests Egypt’s New Kingdom began later than long believed ...

New data from radiocarbon dating is offering deeper insights into ancient Egypt and its relationship with the volcanic ...

In 628 A.D., the Indian mathematician Brahmagupta wrote the first-ever text describing zero as a number. But new research shows that mathematicians in the region had been toying with the concept of ...

Archaeologists have discovered ancient tools and bones in China that, once again, shake up the timeline of the human origin story. The items are more than two million years old, indicating that early ...

New evidence has led to an update of when an ancient ice sheet that used to cover large portions of North America melted – a discovery has implications for modern ice sheets and glaciers in the face ...