On December 21, the National Museum of Indonesia opened its landmark exhibition titled "The Oldest Civilization on Earth: 130 Years After Pithecanthropus Erectus," featuring a collection of Homo ...

This site, known to the local Sundanese people as Gunung Padang, or "mountain of enlightenment," could soon be recognized as the oldest pyramid on Earth, dating back even further than Stonehenge ...

Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...

Vegas. A playpen in the desert. Bliss. Here, 5,000 years of Civilization Can be experienced in an instant. Have a nice day. Enjoy. For in a flash it could all be over. (A one-way street going ...

Now, scientists working in the Barberton Greenstone Belt in South Africa—where some of the oldest rocks on Earth are preserved—find evidence of terrestrial microbial life that they estimate is about 3 ...

Tubes of hematite -- a form of rust -- may be the oldest microfossils and evidence for life on Earth. Credit: Matthew Dodd Ancient rocks in northwestern Canada may contain the oldest evidence of ...