Researchers have conducted a census of the Japanese population around 2,500 years ago using the Y chromosomes of men living on the main islands of modern-day Japan. This is the first time analysis of ...

Archaeological mystery The current theory on human migrations into Japan is that the original inhabitants, the Jomon people, were met about 2,500 years ago by a separate group coming mainly from the ...

Inside a wooden tar-paper shack, technicians manning a crude control panel with dials and switches sent Cape Canaveral's first rocket — Bumper 8 — soaring skyward over the Atlantic Ocean on July 24, ...

In the ruins of a city that was once Rome's neighbor, archaeologists last summer found a 1,000-pound lead coffin. In the ruins of a city that was once Rome's neighbor, archaeologists last summer found ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich.---In the ruins of a city that was once Rome's neighbor, archaeologists last summer found a 1,000-pound lead coffin. Who or what is inside is still a mystery, said Nicola Terrenato, ...

Growing up in the Northwest in the 20th century, if you had any interest in local history, you probably heard about the mystery of the “Beeswax Ship.” You might have read about it in a book from your ...

A mystery artifact was recently excavated from The Paul Revere House property located on the Freedom Trail, Boston Archaeology announced on Tuesday. The city of Boston’s Archaeology department shared ...

From the 3-million-year-old skeleton of Lucy to the 5,000-year-old Italian Iceman Otzi, human remains tell humanity’s most-intimate stories. Without human remains, archaeologists are left with ...

It's a nothing-special grass parking lot in LaVilla, on the edge of downtown. But the members of a fledgling group called the Cowford Archaeological Research Society see it as something quite grand.

An archeological site in the ancient Roman city of Pollentia (iStock). Visitors to the site of the ancient Roman city of Pollentia during the month of July at any point in the last five years would ...

Banda resident Ama Georgina cooks a soup made from cassava leaves, a main source of nutrition during the hungry season. In the Banda district of west-central Ghana, July is the hungry season. This ...