A new book explores the myth that getting eight hours of shut-eye is how we should be sleeping. Its author, Dr Merijn van de Laar, tells long-term insomniac Zoë Beaty why unlocking how our ancestors s ...

The puppets, unearthed in El Salvador, have movable heads, strange facial expressions and may have been dressed for ritual roles.

Bones dating back 25,000 years suggest that humans lived in extremely icy conditions in Tibet, which were previously thought ...

New DNA research shows that half the human beings alive today are descended from the Yamnaya, who lived in Ukraine 5,000 ...

Royalty-free licenses let you pay once to use copyrighted images and video clips in personal and commercial projects on an ongoing basis without requiring additional payments each time you use that ...

Since extracting metallic iron from ores (smelting) is more complex than extracting copper, the Iron Age followed the advent of copper smelting in most parts of the ancient world, including ...

Stone remains of the ancient Baths of Herodes Atticus. The ruins are surrounded by wild vegetation, with grass and tree fragments growing around the historic site. Royalty-free licenses let you pay ...

Keshet International (KI) has secured two additional pre-sales for the upcoming “Seven Wonders of the Ancient ... Ancient World but also what these incredible creations meant to the people ...

They were never meant to see the world. Now, a little over four years ... she’d photograph what she called “people in gestures,” because she was “fascinated by humanity and movement.” ...

It was just this month that an English-Egyptian archaeological mission revealed that it had uncovered the last missing tomb of a king from Ancient Egypt’s Eighteenth Dynasty, King Thutmose II ...

How cutting-edge prosthetic limbs are helping in Gaza, where it's estimated 1 in every 100 people has a life-changing injury because of the conflict. Show more The World Health Organization (WHO ...

An ancient stone circle site thought to be twice ... close to the border of Syria. This Turkish World Heritage Site comprises round-oval and rectangular structures, thought to have been erected ...