The Fat Lady of Saliagos (also known as The Naked Lady of Saliagos) is the oldest known Cycladic sculpture. It is a marble ...

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Some ancient societies in Asia appear to have smoke-dried their dead, effectively mummifying them thousands of years earlier ...

But the practice of artificially preserving bodies shows up in archaeological records around the world. Now, a new study suggests that mummification dates back much earlier, to some of the first human ...

Scientists recently identified the oldest material on Earth: stardust that's 7 billion years old, tucked away in a massive, ...

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Shifting tides along the coast of the ancient region called Mesopotamia might have spurred the rise of the world’s oldest ...

A small sculpture of two toads, and other water-linked symbols found near the Peruvian city of Caral - once the oldest city on the continent - have helped archaeologists confirm that an ancient ...

Shamahi charts humanity's evolutionary odyssey. We sat down with her to discuss the path of our species out of Africa to ...