This week scientists announced that the eruption of Okmok, a volcano located in Alaska, likely contributed to the fall of the Roman Republic in 43 B.C. But that's only one example of volcanoes ...

Archaeologists have uncovered 6,000-year-old skeletons in Colombia that belonged to a mysterious group of people that could rewrite human history. The remains, discovered at the ancient preceramic ...

Francis Fukuyama has been accused of many things—triumphalism, utopianism, warmongering—but never a lack of ambition. True to form, his new book, The Origins of Political Order (Farrar, Straus ...

Archaeologists study artifacts, monuments, and other remains to get a better sense of human history. What they discover often rewrites humans' past and changes the way we think about our species ...

So, while there's no absolute line in history with humans on one side and apes on the other, Professor Herries agrees the first human by contemporary measure was likely a Homo erectus.

Scientists found evidence of the world's first vehicles ... National park discovery rewrites human history. ... either. The tracks weren’t the product of flotsam from Lake Otero, since they were ...

To scientists, they propel Australian history into a global human story and allow us to see ourselves as a species. To Indigenous Australians, they may be valued as an important point of cultural ...