In China, researchers studying the burial site of one of the world's most well-preserved mummies also unearthed what's ...

The oldest known Egyptian DNA sample, from a man who lived between 4,500 to 4,800 years ago, offers new insights into the ...

When a massive tree toppled in the floodplains of Fonte Boa, a region in the Brazilian Amazon, local fishermen noticed ...

New evidence indicates that humans inhabited North America much earlier than previously thought. This video explores a recent ...

Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute and Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) have extracted and sequenced the ...

While Confucius traveled with his disciples to various feudal states, Greek historian Herodotus traversed mountains and seas ...

Fifteen years after the discovery of a new type of human, the Denisovan, scientists discovered its DNA in a fossilized skull.

For the very first time, scientists have sequenced DNA from the entire genome of an individual who lived in ancient Egypt up ...

Excavation uncovers evidence of 4 ancient human species, obsidian tools dating back over 300,000 years - Anadolu Ajansı ...

Archaeologists have uncovered 6,000-year-old skeletons in Colombia that belonged to a mysterious group of people that could rewrite human history. The remains, discovered at the ancient preceramic ...

Examine the ancient Greek slave classes and their role in maintaining the economy. How they were represented in art and ...

A new study has found that leprosy was circulating in Chile some 4,000 years ago, meaning the disease arrived in the Americas ...