Recent archaeological findings in the Sahara Desert have unveiled a tantalizing glimpse into a long-lost lineage of ancient ...

When archaeologists unearthed small cat bones in China dating back some 5,400 years, they figured cats had been hanging out ...

Thousands of years ago, the Sahara Desert was a lush and fertile landscape, home to thriving communities. A new study ...

A stunning discovery in Roman Britain has revealed fingerprints left on liquid gypsum used to prepare bodies for burial, ...

The study bolsters one hypothesis of when people arrived at the landmass that became Australia and other islands, and ...

Ancient DNA from Denisovans left humans a powerful genetic advantage — a gene that helped early Americans survive new ...

The findings, described in the journal Nature, push back the earliest known date for controlled fire-making by roughly ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

The modern-day Bo people of southeastern China have long maintained that they had no connection to those inside the hanging ...

When scientists sequenced the first Neanderthal genomes, they did not just resurrect a lost branch of the human family tree, ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...