An ancient burial site reveals how Etruscans survived the conquest by Rome, suggesting a cultural osmosis not a subordination of one population to another.

A medium-sized sauropod dinosaur that lived in northern Columbia about 175 million years ago helps rewrite the history of sauropods in South America.

People initially appear to have collected or cultivated an ancient ancestor of today's watermelon for its seeds, not its flesh, researchers report.

Climate and conflict entwined when the prehistoric Maya city of Mayapan fell apart, research shows.

Two ancient pits dug into the corner of a Guatemalan home a millennium ago offers clues to Maya toilets—and tamales, too.

An unprecedented dataset of ancient African DNA let researchers outline major demographic shifts that took place between about 80,000 and 20,000 years ago.

The massive scale of the new study challenges previous notions of the origins of Celtic languages and culture in Britain, says coauthor Douglas J. Kennett.

Analysis of a 1,300-year-old skeleton found in a tomb in China determined that the man was not a grave robber, but a victim of murder.

While droughts caused by climate change have been blamed for the fall of the Maya kingdom, new research complicates the picture.

A child’s skull believed to be up to 250,000 years old and discovered in a South African cave sheds light on a human ancestor called Homo naledi.