Among her stops was a visit to the National Museum of Anthropology, a destination that quickly turned into an unexpected fan ...

The massive granite boxes of the Serapeum exhibit flatness, squareness, and parallelism measured to extreme tolerances. Engineers have confirmed that these features rival modern machining standards.

Humans did not become dominant through strength, speed, or natural weapons. Instead, culture, tools, and collective knowledge allowed them to bypass limits that constrain every other species. Fire, ...

Over a century ago, anthropologist Raymond Dart chipped an ancient skull out of some rock from an ancient quarry — and revealed the face of an ancient human relative.