While still a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, UC Santa Cruz professor Elaine Sullivan unearthed ancient ...

Once unable to read his own language, Ha Nam Ninh is now the leading expert in Thai script preservation in Thanh Hoa.

But no one else had found any written material in any of the other ... study of the cylinders and is currently writing a book about the diffusion of ancient Egyptian objects through the modern ...

We know what they look like, and even sound like, but there’s one question you might not have pondered: what do ancient ...

Scientists have digitally "unwrapped" a 2,000-year-old charred scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum - providing the first glimpse inside the ancient document since it was buried by Mount Vesuvius ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has been busy gathering bits of Mars — rock cores the size of chalk sticks, clusters of broken fragments no bigger than pencil erasers, and even grains of dust fine enough to ...

Ancient quasars seen by the James Webb Space Telescope technically shouldn’t exist, but one rare type of dark matter could ...

Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — ...

The majority of the beads were found in a large cavern, worn by mostly female skeletons estimated to be between the ages 18 ...

The Bronze Age footprints stand as a dark omen of the Roman-era disaster—one that clearly went unnoticed through centuries of ...