About 4,000 years ago, people in Lothal showed us how best to integrate land and water management practices

Rudyard Kipling gave us unbelievable stories about the humane wolf. Now, a court decision reaffirms the animal's vital role in the ecosystem

A new interpretation of texts from a civilisation that flourished 1,000 years ago reveals its uncanny similarity with modern times

Evidence trawled from lake sediments in Sweden traces atmospheric lead pollution back to more than 2 millennia

Examining hair fibres could help determine when South Americans graduated from hunting vicunas to herding llamas

Recent findings suggest the Akkadian empire, which once flourished on the banks of the Euphrates, collapsed because of a sudden dearth of water.

Recent evidence suggests that the muskox, believed to have become extinct 10,000 years ago, may have actually survived till much later.

When did life on earth begin? The question continues to stoke the curiosity of scientists, stimulating the search for fossils that provide the only source of direct evidence of when a particular

A hieroglyphic script in which the earliest Central American texts were written has been partly deciphered, thanks to an engraved slab found by fisherfolk.