Ancient Aboriginal Murujuga rock art in Australia has been granted UNESCO world heritage status, after a campaign which lasted almost two decades.

Cameroon’s President Paul Biya is not only the oldest head of state worldwide, but also Africa’s second-longest serving head ...

Israel, in confronting these threats at their source, is not merely defending itself. It is shielding the broader world from the spread of jihadist ideology and theocracy. Its pre-emptive strikes, ...

Human faces are famously flatter than those of other primates. Neanderthals, by contrast, had prominent, projecting midfaces ...

In 1931, the Skhūl I fossil was uncovered at Mugharat es-Skhūl (the Cave of the Children), also known as Skhūl Cave, Israel.

While carrying out an underwater excavation project near the shoreline of Poland's Lake Lednica, archaeologists made an ...

Archaeologists in Portugal just identified the world's oldest mummies — thanks to a few undeveloped rolls of 60-year-old film ...

A federal judge in Maryland has scolded the Trump administration for its “utter refusal” to detail deportation plans for ...