G Kumaresan and team are working on reconstructing the face of an ancient Tamil using a Sangam-age skull. Research indicates ...

The ancient Egyptians also used papyrus and writing boards to keep records of thing like laws. This is different from societies living at the same time who used no writing, such as the people who ...

Researchers developed a more precise method of understanding ancestry from ancient DNA and used it to identify previously ...

But for thousands of years, people preserved the remains of their dead as mummies. This was especially true in places with hot and dry climates, like parts of ancient Peru and Egypt. Now ...