Long before farming took hold, ancient Indigenous peoples of the American Southwest were already shaping the future of a wild ...

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Italian centenarians have a higher proportion of DNA inherited from ancient hunter-gatherers compared to the general population, according to a new study that could lead to better understanding of ...

Cleanliness in ancient societies was never just about comfort. It signaled status, health, and the everyday discipline of life in dusty cities and river valleys. Without modern plumbing or packaged ...

Ancient bones, artifacts and texts offer numerous insights into the past, as does the chewing gum that Neolithic people chewed on and spat out long ago. Analysis of lumps of birch bark tar from ...

When we imagine the earliest humans brave enough to hunt a forty-ton whale, the image that usually comes to mind is frosty ...

Examination of an ancient alabaster vase in the Yale Peabody Museum’s Babylonian Collection has revealed traces of opiates, providing the clearest evidence to date of broad opium use in ancient ...

Millennia ago, when ancient people did not know what toothbrushes were, food particles and microbes clung stubbornly to their teeth. These plaques mineralized over time to form crusty, hard tartar.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have identified a ...