For the first time, researchers have uncovered direct genomic evidence of the bacterium behind the Plague of Justinian—the ...

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

Recent discoveries have sparked a wave of excitement and intrigue among scientists and the public alike, as evidence suggests ...

Fossilized teeth show that two different kinds of ancient human ancestors coexisted more than 2 million years ago. One of ...

According to Finestone, Nyayanga stones are significantly older than other known examples of ancient stone transport.

Early human ancestors also carried these toolkits of carved and chipped stones long distances, possibly indicating an ...

By Stephen Beech Man's ancestors transported stones over long distances to craft tools 2.6 million years ago - 600,000 years ...

Scientists know little about Denisovans, a now-extinct relative of humans. But a gene inherited from these hominins may have ...

Teeth from an elderly man who lived around the time that the earliest pyramids were built have yielded the first full human genome sequence from ancient Egypt. “It’s incredibly exciting and ...

The so-called "Dragon Man" skull found in China in 1933 sheds light on the ancient human species the Denisovans, about whom scientists previously had little information.

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

Prague’s newest visitor is 3.2 million years old. Lucy, the famed Australopithecus afarensis fossil, has arrived in the Czech ...