New scientific work is quietly redrawing the master timeline of ancient Egypt, shifting key dynasties and even the start of ...

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

Plotting the gradual advancement mankind is a tricky thing for archaeologists. Researchers are forced to draw from rare artifacts, using them to make rough estimates of when certain groups of ...

There are a few ways you can go about catching up on significant moments in world and human history. You can attend lectures or perhaps read a few history books. Or, you can temporarily toss those old ...

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 ...

An artistic rendering of the Yunxian man, who may have lived about one million years ago, according to a new analysis. Photo / The Washington Post He lived hundreds of thousands of years ago, eking ...

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Traces of urine left by humans and domesticated animals who lived in central Turkey’s Aşıklı Höyük settlement some 10,000 years ago are helping archaeologists rewrite the timeline of early agriculture ...

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

A definitive geological timeline shows that a series of massive volcanic explosions 66 million years ago spewed enormous amounts of climate-altering gases into the atmosphere immediately before and ...

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 ...

A new radiocarbon study has clarified the timing of the colossal Thera eruption, placing it before Egypt’s New Kingdom. Researchers analyzed artifacts tied to Pharaoh Ahmose, gaining rare access to ...