Two different groups migrated to what become Australia and New Guinea 60,000 years ago, and researchers are only just ...

Archaeologists have discovered an Anglo-Saxon village during excavations ahead of a large wind farm project. The excavations near the village of Friston in Suffolk have uncovered a previously unknown ...

Archaeologists say they have found the oldest known instance of fire setting, a key moment in human evolution.

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

While keeping the long-dead crocodilian intact, McKnight and her team also “virtually” recreated the bronze hook lodged in ...

Today, the Arabian Gulf is home to manatee-like marine mammals called dugongs that shape the seafloor as they graze on ...

According to the team, that pine pitch is the first major new clue in over a century. When the boat was built, Denmark itself ...

Plans to open a new museum and café in a derelict building have taken a major step forward thanks to an £8.5m grant. Leaders ...

Professor Nick Ashton, curator of Palaeolithic Collections at the British Museum, said it was the “most exciting discovery of ...

Work is beginning on the documented reconstruction of the monument’s original decorative appearance, in a collaboration ...

A new study uses sibling genetics to compare monogamy across species. Humans score higher than expected and sit close to ...

Humans originally began to spread out across Africa some 300,000 years ago, but it was long believed that they primarily stuck to savannas. This was because wet forest environments, with their harsh ...