Archaeologist and anthropologist Jerry Moore reviews the findings that explain a relationship marked first by fear and then ...

Long before Yoga became about flexibility and fitness, Yoga masters believed good health was a responsibility—to oneself, to one’s evolution, and to future generations ...

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 published in Nature sheds light on the ancient peoples who once lived there, ...

New fossils link a strange 3.4-million-year-old foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, a species that mixed climbing skills with its own style of bipedal walking. The evidence shows that multiple early ...

Chimpanzee calls activate key human brain voice regions, revealing ancient neural links that may reshape our understanding of language origins.

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

Researchers spent four years analyzing to rule out natural wildfires. Geochemical tests showed temperatures had exceeded 700 degrees Celsius.

Nowadays archaeologists guess that ancient humans first entered the Americas as long as 24,000 years ago, perhaps via a sea ...