The Namibian genocide was one of the first genocides of the 20th century. Between 1904 and 1908, tens of thousands of Ovaherero and Nama people were killed under German colonial rule. Despite the ...

A vast scarred landscape in Iraq may expose the buried labor behind one of the medieval world’s most overlooked uprisings.

Analysis - The Namibian genocide was one of the first genocides of the 20th century. Between 1904 and 1908, tens of thousands of Ovaherero and Nama people were killed under German colonial rule.

Workers preparing the ground for a solar energy plant on the Adriatic coast north of Vasto, Italy, broke into something far ...

A groundbreaking scientific study published in PLOS ONE is challenging recent claims about when humans first arrived in the ...

Rakhal Das Banerji was born on April 12, 1885, in Berhampore, Murshidabad. He pursued his education in Kolkata and earned a ...

Learn more about the microbial communities found around ancient bones and the role they play in preservation and decay.

Well-preserved archaeological bone samples have different microbial communities than heavily degraded bone samples, providing ...

A team of Chinese archaeologists has identified residues of aconitine on a pair of iron scissors and surgical forceps ...

A new study of 250,000-year-old fossil teeth from France suggests climate shifts repeatedly isolated and reconnected ...

Archaeologists in the Carolinas have found direct evidence of Ice Age hunters killing megafauna. Using advanced protein ...

Neanderthals were oddly obsessed with golden eagles, much more so than any other animal. They went to great lengths to hunt ...