Excavations at an opencast mine in Greece have uncovered two wooden objects more than 400,000 years old that appear to have ...

A 5500-year-old genome recovered from human skeletal remains in Colombia may give insights into the early evolution of ...

An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...

The fingers of one of the hands were "retouched to become pointed like claws," the study's co-author said.

Some of these ‘remedies’ included human feces, powdered lizards and hippo teeth.

A roughly 500,000-year-old elephant bone hammer has been discovered in Boxgrove, England. This find ...

Scenes of battle and words of romantic passion decorated the corridor wall outside of a theater.

Scientists uncover the oldest wooden tools in Greece, dating back 430,000 years, offering insights into ancient human tool ...

Ancient handprint on Sulawesi cave wall suggests complexity of thought, challenging long-held belief that human intelligence ...

A 5,500-year-old skeleton from Colombia has revealed the oldest known genome of the bacterium linked to syphilis and related ...

Footage shows how researchers discovers fossil human footprints embedded in an ancient lakebed that show humans inhabited ...

Discovered during excavations at Boxgrove in West Sussex, the ancient hammer is among the oldest elephant bone tools ever ...