A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and ...

Archaeologists have just uncovered the first known funeral home from ancient Egypt. The complex included a mummification ...

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Learn more about groundbreaking genetic research that reveals a long-lost population and solves a centuries-old linguistic mystery.

Researchers used advanced technology to digitally "unroll" an ancient Greek text on carbonized papyrus, and now they're ...

The inside of a charred scroll has been deciphered for the first time in 2,000 years after it was buried during a huge ...

Now, more than a decade later, new analysis of the fossils has found that they belong to a new 73-million-year-old species, according to a study published Jan. 28 in the peer-reviewed journal ...

A papyrus scroll carbonised by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius two millennia ago is slowly being read once again thanks to ...

The world of the Roman Empire was not just one of legions, emperors, and conquests — it was also a world of legal disputes, ...

New research has uncovered the earliest traces of lead contamination caused by human activities, linking the development of ...

The scroll was discovered in the town of Herculaneum, a town destroyed in the volcanic eruption that buried neighbouring ...

Antarctica may have been a refuge for early waterfowl ancestors, shielding them from the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs.