The strategic, cultural, and economic significance of ancient Greek colonies in the Black Sea and their enduring legacy.

Roughly 8,000-year-old remains unearthed from present-day Tunisia held a surprise: European hunter-gatherer ancestry ...

Researchers have discovered what may be the world’s oldest 3D map, located within a quartzitic sandstone megaclast in the ...

Ancient DNA reveals that Stone Age Europeans voyaged by sea to Africa, providing the earliest proof of prehistoric ...

The discovery shines further light on the pivotal role played by the Maghreb in shaping societies along Africa's ...

This is the first time that a fossil thrips has been recorded anywhere in Africa, or the entire southern hemisphere.

Hundreds of ancient fynbos species could regrow and restore a former pine plantation on Cape Town’s Table Mountain, but only ...

High-Altitude Residential Sites In Africa Provide Evidence of Humans Mountaineering 30,000 Years Ago Archaeologists have long ...

Yet hundreds of East African maids and nannies have died in Saudi Arabia. Many more are injured, beaten or raped. We spent nearly a year investigating the pattern → Justin Scheck We traveled ...

A trove of fossilized dinosaur footprints has been found on a slab of rock gathering dust inside an Australian school, scientists said on Wednesday. The rock went largely unnoticed for 20 years ...

At Ancient Origins, we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings. And while some people may seem content with the story as it stands, ...

Failure to agree on global grants to help low- and middle-income countries to achieve net-zero emissions cannot be the end of the story. An urgent solution is needed.