Evidence suggests ancient hunter-gatherers performed the first ever African cremation of a female sometime around 9,500 years ...

The year’s most notable findings also include insights into dog and sheep domestication and a new species of manta ray in the ...

A research team at the British Museum, led by Nick Ashton and Rob Davis, reports evidence that ancient humans could make and ...

Recent archaeological discoveries have shed light on how ancient humans survived a massive climate crisis triggered by a catastrophic volcanic eruption 74,000 years ago. By studying volcanic glass, ...

Discoveries ranging from the oldest known example of human mummification to first deliberate use of fire by people were made ...

For the first time, scientists have reconstructed the ancient genomes of human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B (HHV-6A/B) from ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. If I tried to recap all the new fossils, new methods and ...

Scientists recently discovered what may be the earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making by humans — and it’s far older than scholars previously believed.

Excavations carried out across Türkiye in 2025 produced an exceptional range of archaeological finds, from humanity’s ...

A seven-million-year-old fossil may rewrite human origins, showing our ancestors were walking upright far earlier than anyone expected.

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

The human story — where we come from and how we evolved — got a new chapter in 2021. Thanks to new fossil finds and analysis of ancient DNA preserved in teeth, bones and cave dirt, scientists have ...