In 2004, archaeologists discovered a new species of ancient human, Homo floresiensis, on the Indonesian island of Flores. Nicknamed “the hobbit,” this three-foot-tall hominin lived between about ...

Comfort food is great at rising to the moment, on a dark and cold night when you want a warm embrace of ramen or a bright morning, when loudly colorful cereal seems like the most delicious thing in ...

While life emerged around 4 billion years ago, human history—from the earliest humans approximately 2.5 million years ago to the present day—represents a relatively short period in the scale of ...

The Stones of Stenness, a brood of lichen-encrusted megaliths in the far north of the British Isles, could be mistaken for a latter-day work of land art, one with ominous overtones. The stones stand ...

More than 10,000 years ago, a teenage girl in present-day Estonia put a piece of birch tar in her mouth, chewed it, and spit it out. Now, researchers in Estonia are using the unassuming prehistoric ...

Ancient barley grains dating back 5,000 years were recently unearthed in Turkey — preserved only because they were burned. The Anadolu Agency (AA), a state-run outlet in Ankara, reported the discovery ...

Deep underground, thousands of years of silence are abruptly broken by a researcher singing. His voice seems to awaken the walls of the cavern as the intimate space comes alive with the sound of our ...

Francky Knapp is the commerce writer at Eater, and an award-winning writer with bylines in GQ, VICE, The Daily Beast, and other publications. A curious home cook with a deep love of Polish cabbage ...

Curtis Stone smiles in a white dress shirt at an event - Michael Kovac/Getty Images Chef Curtis Stone was trained in Europe and is currently the proprietor of The Pie Room in Beverly Hills, California ...

Dutch officials will return the 7.5-inch-tall stone bust to Egypt by the end of the year. Dutch Information and Heritage Inspectorate The Netherlands has announced that it will return a 3,500-year-old ...

BIG STONE GAP, Va. (WJHL) — A piece of history was unveiled in Big Stone Gap on Saturday. A time capsule dating back to 1908 was placed in the Minor Building in town until Kendra Miller stumbled upon ...

At a site in Kenya, archaeologists recently unearthed layer upon layer of stone stools from deposits that span 300,000 years, and include a period of intense environmental upheaval. The oldest tools ...