The elongated skull was likely caused by a genetic condition, but it evidently didn’t get in the way of the individual’s ...

Clues from a digital reconstruction of a lavish ancient home are changing how researchers understand Pompeii’s elite.

As far as kitchen staples, you don’t really get much better than olive oil. It can do it all—jazz up a salad, sauté vegetables, add a nice crisp to some noodles, and more. Humans have been using olive ...

There were 22 gold objects, in addition to other impressive grave goods, buried with the deceased, indicating they were ...

Ultimately, these 573 fortresses redefine what we know about northern China’s prehistory. Long before the first emperors ...

On an expedition in the Awash Valley in Ethiopia, two anthropologists uncovered the bones of a 3.2 million-year-old human ...

Archaeologists uncover 16 Indigenous canoes, one older than the Pyramids, revealing a vast prehistoric travel network.

Archaeological evidence from sites like Madjedbebe suggested an arrival date of approximately 65,000 years ago, while genetic analyses consistently pointed to a much more recent timeframe of 47,000 to ...

Researchers from the Prehistoric Studies and Research Seminar and the Institute of Archaeology of the University of Barcelona ...

Olive oil is the Swiss army knife of foodstuffs. It can dress salads, sauté vegetables, even grease squeaky hinges. And for ...

Scholars have long debated how the massive stone figures of Rapa Nui got to where they stand today. A new study offers one ...

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year ...