While Guinness World Records officially lists the Djoser Step pyramid in Egypt as the world’s oldest pyramid (around 2,630 BC), one paper published in October claimed a layer of the Gunung Padang ...

Prominent Iranian political activist, Kianoosh Sanjari, who took his own life on Wednesday in an act of protest, was buried ...

Roughly 1.77-million-year-old teeth show that slow development in hominids may have had an earlier start than previously ...

It has been 50 years since archaeologists discovered Lucy, perhaps the most famous ancient hominin ever found. But the ...

Compared to the great apes, humans have an exceptionally long childhood, during which parents, grandparents and other adults contribute to their physical and cognitive development. This is a key ...

The history of human writing is being rewritten after archaeologists found the origins of words engraved on 6,000-year-old ...

The 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor known as Lucy rose to fame through an incredible combination of circumstances ...

Delaware state legislator Sarah McBride won her momentous bid for the U.S. House this week, declaring, “Our democracy is big ...

It took longer than expected, but about 18 hours after the polls closed, the full election results from Story County were finally posted to the Iowa Secretary of State’s website, confirming that ...

GOP former state Sen. Tom Barrett was ahead of former Democratic state Sen. Curtis Hertel Jr. in a race that could determine ...

As debunked ideas from race science experience a resurgence, the history of psychology and eugenics highlight the perils.

A 33-year-old woman known by many in the Bay View neighborhood as an employee of a popular bar was seriously injured when a driver, who was street racing, crashed into her while she was crossing ...