Early human ancestors called the LRJ Group lived in Europe for 80 generations, intermingling with Neanderthals, before ...

Researchers at a dig site in Spain discovered tools from some of the first farmers, possibly dating back 7,000 years. The ...

Throughout human history, people have sought guidance beyond the material world when facing important decisions or uncertain times. From the Vedic astrologers of ancient India to the oracles of Greece ...

Researchers analyzing ancient pottery from Northern Mesopotamia have identified what may be the world's earliest botanical ...

The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...

Ancient Nubians who lived between the 7th and 9th centuries tattooed the cheeks and foreheads of their infants and toddlers.

In a groundbreaking archaeological discovery, researchers have unearthed a 476,000-year-old wooden structure at Kalambo Falls in northern Zambia, offering a ...

In the heart of northern Zambia, a groundbreaking archaeological discovery at Kalambo Falls is reshaping our understanding of early human ingenuity.

Researchers analyzed 333 Italian centenarians and compared their genetic composition to 103 ancient genomes to investigate ...

Excavations of an ancient construction site in Pompeii have revealed the process of how Romans mixed their self-healing concrete.

A 1.6-million-year-old Ethiopian skull blends ancestor and descendant features, rewriting the origin story of Homo erectus.

The Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia arranged floral depictions on pottery with symmetry and numerical sequences, ...