Previous studies identified specific genes related to a longer life span. However, the recent study in GeroScience ventured ...

"Ancient Food and Flavor" at the Penn Museum features outdoor raised beds with plantings of the types of foods that would have been in ancient Peru, Switzerland, and Jordan. (Peter Crimmins/WHYY) ...

According to Ancient Minoan marriage rules, first cousin marriages were nothing unusual in the particular society.

The Coclé is an ancient Panamanian people group that once flourished in what’s known today as Coclé Province. The first artifacts from this culture were first uncovered in the 1920s, but many major ...

In 2024, we use many everyday objects so often that we barely notice them. While we have access to incredible technology like ...

When archaeologists study how ancient civilizations traveled, they can use evidence like wagons and stables and roads to understand how goods and people moved on land. But when they want to learn ...

Ancient Maya kings may have already told us how to tackle our water crisis, a new study has found. The Maya civilization dates back almost 4,000 years and spanned what is now Belize, Guatemala, ...

An ancient "arcade" of game boards carved into rock has been discovered by an archaeologist and paleoanthropologist from Yale University in Kenya. The researcher, Veronica Waweru, noticed rows of ...

A facial reconstruction was made using a 3D scan of the Egyptian man's skull. - Caroline Wilkinson, Liverpool John Moores University In a long-sought first, researchers have sequenced the entire ...

The United Nations predicts that the global population will reach 10.9 billion by the current century. Researchers anticipate that this rapid population growth will increase the global demand for food ...

Millennia ago, when ancient people did not know what toothbrushes were, food particles and microbes clung stubbornly to their teeth. These plaques mineralized over time to form crusty, hard tartar.