See **how to build** an impressive **earthen house** using **mud** and demonstrating **ancient engineering**! This incredible ...

In this video, primitive stoves are constructed using basic tools and raw materials. The video also features a demonstration ...

Researchers have discovered chemical fingerprints of Earth's earliest incarnation, preserved in ancient mantle rocks. A ...

At Rome’s Casal Lumbroso site, humans 400,000 years ago turned a dead elephant into food and tools—proof of astonishing ...

Before the first trees sprouted on Earth, the planet’s barren landscape may already have been transformed by fungi.

A remarkable fossil, Breugnathair elgolensis, unearthed on Scotland's Isle of Skye, offers crucial insights into snake evolution. This 167-million-yea ...

Get to know Breugnathair elgolensis, a half snake, half lizard that inhabited Jurassic-era Scotland.

Researchers found “chemical fossils” in ancient rocks containing 30-carbon steranes, a stable form of sterols present in the cell membranes of complex organisms.

Hippocrates is the father of traditional Ancient Greek medicine. Credit: Raed Mansour / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 2.0 A new academic study highlights how medical ideas from ancient Greece and Rome ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Researchers have discovered life-size rock carvings of camels, gazelles and other animals in the Saudi Arabian desert. The carvings date back to around 12,000 years ago and many are ...

New research from Japan's iron-rich hot springs shows how early microbes may have harnessed iron and oxygen during the Great ...