A deep look at the most graffiti-filled corridor in all of Pompeii revealed 79 new inscriptions from over 2,000 years ago, ...

Ludovic Orlando's Horses is an enthralling account by one of the main players, detailing how genetics has rewritten what we ...

A 5500-year-old genome recovered from human skeletal remains in Colombia may give insights into the early evolution of ...

At a shocking 20 centimeters (8 inches) long and 5 centimeters (2 inches) wide, this coprolite is the largest intact piece of ...

"A plague is upon us'' may have been a common phrase in ancient Jordan, where countless people perished from a mysterious ...

“Our results push back the association of T. pallidum with humans by thousands of years, possibly more than 10,000 years ago ...

Syphilis has long played a role in human history: some think that notable figures like Dracula author Bram Stoker and Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin had the disease. And scientists know that the ...

Treponema pallidum, a microorganism that can cause a deadly sexually transmitted disease in humans, may have a far more ancient lineage than scientists once thought ...

Discovered during excavations at Boxgrove in West Sussex, the ancient hammer is among the oldest elephant bone tools ever ...

Scientists believe that recent analysis of a find from the 1970's can offer us insights into the lives of ancient humans.

Scientists recover DNA from a 5,500-year-old burial in Colombia, revealing ancient syphilis-related bacteria and reshaping disease history.

But this latest discovery seems to challenge that. It appears that Paranthropus had greater dietary flexibility than first interpreted, could adapt to a wide range of environmental conditions and was ...