As ancient communities shifted from foraging to farming, the forces driving this dramatic change weren’t always what many ...

Along the ancient banks of a river in what is now northern Israel, scientists have uncovered surprising details about the ...

A GROUNDBREAKING discovery of two mummies has revealed a previously unknown human ancestor from over 7,000 years ago. The ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously ...

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute in Germany found that these ancient corpses unearthed in present-day Libya carried the DNA of a previously unknown group of humans from 7,000 years ago.

As ancient communities shifted from foraging to farming, the forces driving this dramatic change weren’t always what many once believed. For decades, archaeologists and historians pointed to ...

The oldest cemetery in Africa is yielding yet more insights into the lives of ancient humans. About 15,000 years ago, people were living and burying their dead in a cave in northern Morocco.

Animals and humans have always coexisted. Before cities, nomadic hunter-gatherers depended on animals for food, transport, ...

A fossilized jawbone found off the coast of Taiwan more than 20 years ago belonged to a group of ancient humans, called the Denisovans, first identified in a Siberian cave. “I’m very excited ...