Fossils are invaluable archives of the past. They preserve details about living things from a few thousand to hundreds of millions of years ago.

BEIJING, July 16 (Xinhua) -- Chinese archaeologists have investigated the lives of nobles from the Qin state during the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, providing new insights into ancient Chinese social ...

There are more than 50 theories for the function of this 12-sided, pentagonal-faced bronze object — but archaeologists have ...

Molecules from the 20-million-year-old teeth of a rhino relative are among the oldest ever sequenced, opening tantalizing ...

Scientists have recovered genetic material from a skull found in northeastern China, which they say reveals the most complete ...

The mysterious ancient humans were only known from fossil fragments. Now, two papers argue a skull uncovered in China belongs ...

An international research team has published a new study on one of the oldest known sites for the processing of animal meat ...

A skull from China has been identified as Denisovan using molecular evidence – so ancient humans once known solely from their ...

A team of Chinese scientists has discovered wooden tools in Yunnan province dating back approximately 300,000 years, shedding ...

This painted penguin pot is in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. It was made about 1,600 years ago and was collected in Peru in the late 19th century. The multicolored ceramic vessel is ...

In 2010, scientists found the first evidence of another hominin subspecies, known as the Danisovans. Now, they’ve identified ...

A multidisciplinary research team has announced the discovery of 300,000-year-old well-preserved wooden artifacts at the ...