Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, according to ...
The Sumerian creation myth can be found on a tablet in Nippur, an ancient Mesopotamian city founded in approximately 5000 BC. The creation of Earth ( Enuma Elish) according to the Sumerian tablets ...
Every culture has an explanation about how we got here. The ancient Greeks were no different. The dramatic story of the origins of humanity in Greek mythology involves love, pain, and a hefty dose of ...
In a 1970 National Geographic feature, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey—son of Louis and Mary Leakey—recounted his ...
A million-year-old skull from China, Yunxian 2, reshapes our understanding of human origins and ancient human relatives.
An ancient skull unearthed in China may push back the origins of our species by half a million years, challenging long-held beliefs about when—and with whom—early humans roamed the Earth, reports the ...
Archaeologists uncovered teeth from an ancient human ancestor in Ethiopia's Afar Region. - Amy Rector/Virginia Commonwealth University Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long ...
Several hominid species were consistently exposed to lead for almost two million years, which may have given modern humans a ...
An aerial view of the Longgupo site in Wushan, Southwest China's Chongqing Municipality Photo: VCG. Wearing a dim headlamp, and often getting covered in mud while working in cramp ...
Archaeologists in south-east Turkey have made an extraordinary find—a prehistoric stone face that might turn everything we ...
Recent advances in ancient DNA analysis have sparked intriguing discussions about the possibility of non-human entities once ruling the Earth. While such claims challenge the boundaries of ...
Origins" is airing the premiere of its second season on Monday, Oct. 6 at 9 p.m. There are several ways to watch with a free ...