Ancient DNA extracted from a sediment core from a high-altitude Pyrenean lake in Spain reveals that fish may have been added ...

High mountain lakes in Europe were naturally fishless due to geographical barriers. However, recent studies revealed that ...

City-building can be an exhausting affair, once you’ve evolved beyond the initial joy of cottage windows lighting up ...

A bone discovered in Taiwan turns out to have belonged to a Denisovan, a lineage previously identified only thousands of ...

Besides thinking about the ancient Roman Empire all the time, men have also been known to fantasize about bravely fending off ...

Garum is on everyone’s lips at the moment; at Newtown’s newest vegetarian haunt Flora, Head Chef Jude Hughes pairs mushroom ...

By Martin ClarkSome people think of mosaic making as a craft but really good mosaicists can introduce perspective, depth of ...

Their analyses revealed the green Sahara individuals likely branched off from the ancestors of sub-Saharan Africans roughly 50,000 years ago. Then, somehow, they remained genetically isolated for tens ...

By the 18th century, Llandovery had become a hub for Welsh drovers. These hard-grafting men moved herds of cattle across vast ...

Minoan Greece had fast food 3,600 years ago, with food stalls serving dishes like souvlaki, a beloved Greek staple still popular today.

About 7,000 years ago, in the Sahara, two women were buried in a rock shelter in what is now southwestern Libya. At the time, ...