As the year comes to an end, we are looking back at some of the coolest and weirdest fossils in the news this year and what ...

Below the skyscrapers rising up around Beijing lies an ancient secret: tombs from the capital's imperial past. TIME Beijing reporter Mia Turner investigates the latest treasures unearthed by China's ...

The Roman ruins uncovered at the Parco delle Acacie also include an ancient road, two massive basins, and a wealth of grave ...

Treponema pallidum, a microorganism that can cause a deadly sexually transmitted disease in humans, may have a far more ancient lineage than scientists once thought ...

Prototaxites are something of a prehistoric mystery. They were the first giant organisms on land, towering over ancient ...

Europe might not be the birthplace of human symbolic culture as previously thought. International scientists have discovered a stencil of a hand in Indonesia that dates back nearly 68,000 years, ...

This video documents an organized metal-detecting dig where history slowly emerged from the ground. Each find offers a ...

Scientists have recovered a genome of Treponema pallidum – the bacterium whose subspecies today are responsible for four ...

The cave paintings were discovered by an international team of researchers preserved in limestone caves on one of Sulawesi’s ...

The discovery comes from limestone caves on the island of Sulawesi. Here, faint red hand stencils, created by blowing pigment ...

A young woman buried in China’s Tarim Basin some 2,000 years ago went to the afterlife accompanied by the height of fashion. The woman, who was wrapped in a felt blanket and buried in a coffin ...

Archaeologists think the newly discovered artifacts remained at the production site because they were deemed unusable. Large ...