New discoveries in archaeology, genetics, and geology are piling up and they do not fit the clean textbook story of slow ...

Across archaeology and earth science, new discoveries are stacking up and they do not fit the clean textbook timeline of slow human progress. Evidence points to sudden cataclysms, lost knowledge, and ...

Excavations at a central Italian city upended the belief that it served as a “backwater town” during the Roman era, finding instead it was a thriving centre till the 3rd century. The decade-long ...