“Because they rarely change, they serve as identifiers for tracing ancient migrations ... rarity makes it a powerful clue for tracing human history." When an uncommon marker appears in distant, ...

Recent discoveries in archaeology have unveiled a previously unknown civilization that could fundamentally alter our ...

A group of scientists has sequenced the genome of a man who was buried in Egypt around 4,500 years ago. The study offers rare ...

Scientists believe that 300,000 years ago in Lower Saxony, Homo heidelbergensis shared space with a now-extinct species of ...

Researchers from France, China, the UK, and Greece revealed that the Petralona cranium is at least 286,000 years old, placing it firmly in the Middle Pleistocene era. A new scientific study has shed ...

Amid the soaring peaks and meandering rivers of Tràng An, Vietnam, a 12,000-year-old skeleton was recently found buried in a ...

Hundreds of stone tools discovered in Kenya have revealed that human relatives traveled long distances to find raw material.

Roughly 10,000 years ago, humans started shifting from being nomadic hunter-gatherers to building large agricultural ...

For the first time, researchers have uncovered direct genomic evidence of the bacterium behind the Plague of Justinian - the world's first recorded pandemic - in the Eastern Mediterranean, where the ...

The remains of at least seven infants were found at Uşaklı Höyük, Turkey, alongside a well preserved newborn baby ...

Step back in time 500,000 years and uncover the story of our ancient ancestors at “The Boxgrove Man with Tony Tynan”, an ...

Over the centuries, poets have often used ancient Greece as their "muse," resulting in some of the most magnificent poems ...