Historians are occasionally forced to revise their preconceived notions after discovering something hidden in the shadows and ...

Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, pathogen DNA has uncovered a pivotal disease "turning point" that happened 6,500 ...

(Reuters) -In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China's Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilization that it was hard to gauge its significance. A new analysis now ...

A new study maps 40,000 years of Denisovan and human interbreeding, showing how ancient DNA spread, faded, and shaped ...

The study of ancient DNA has revolutionised our understanding of human history, enabling scientists to decipher complex population dynamics over tens of thousands of years. By analysing genetic ...

In an excerpt from his new book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean explores a weird and wild '90s experiment to replicate ancient ...

Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same place ...

Betel nut chewing is more than just a simple habit. Throughout history, communities across Southeast Asia have used these nuts socially, spiritually, and medicinally. Wrapped in betel leaves and ...

Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than six miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. In southwestern Kenya more than 2.6 million years ago, ...

Archaeologists have recently proposed that the Gunung Padang site in Indonesia, long considered the world’s oldest pyramid, ...