The U.S. government shut down much of its operations just after midnight on Wednesday, Oct. 1 as Congress and the White House remain deadlocked on reaching a funding deal, setting off what could be a ...

On Sept. 27, 1822, French philologist Jean-François Champollion announced that he had deciphered the text on the Rosetta stone, opening a window into ancient Egyptian civilization. The stone had been ...

The Declaration of Independence was as much economic as political, resisting the mercantilist system favored by the British. That same year, Adam Smith published “The Wealth of Nations,” providing ...

Researchers used sophisticated scanning and digital reconstruction techniques to determine the original shape of the skull, ...

Could megalithic tombs and henges in Europe be reconstructions of older wooden monuments? This theory challenges radiocarbon dating methods that date only soil and organic remains, not the stones ...

Skull from Hubei Province is about a million years old Researchers conducted digital reconstruction on skull Study has implications for Homo sapiens lineage timeline Sept 25 (Reuters) - In 1990, an ...

He lived hundreds of thousands of years ago, eking out an existence in what is today central China. Sporting a squat neck and a big brain, he likely wielded tools made of stone and hunted or scavenged ...

(Reuters) -In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China’s Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilization that it was hard to gauge its significance. A new analysis now ...

Digital recreation of Hipparchia, the audacious Cynic philosopher, who challenged societal norms in ancient Athens. Credit: Greek Reporter archive. Most people in ancient Greece’s illustrious city of ...

Researchers digitally reconstructed a crushed skull and concluded our species is 1 million years old, igniting a debate over the start date of Homo sapiens. He lived hundreds of thousands of years ago ...