Utility workers in Lima, Peru, uncovered a 1,000-year-old mummy while digging trenches for a natural gas line. The remarkably well-preserved remains, including intact dark brown hair, were found just ...

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new study based on analyses of the genomes of 28 people who lived between 10,200 ...

When divers surfaced from the cold waters of a Polish lake earlier this year cradling a carved wooden face, they were holding a survivor from a millennium ago. The find, lifted from the bottom of Lake ...