New research reveals ancient humans in southern Africa lived in isolation for nearly 100,000 years. This led to unique ...

A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human ...

Learn how genomes from 28 ancient individuals show that Homo sapiens lived in southern Africa in near isolation for hundreds ...

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

Layers of forgotten civilisations shape these ancient-world books that avoid Egypt, Greece and Rome, bringing vivid echoes of ...

In one of the largest African ancient-DNA studies to date, geneticists from Uppsala University, Sweden, and an archaeologist ...

A research team led by Professor Luo Shujin from the School of Life Sciences has uncovered a surprising chapter in the ...

Historians have long debated the height of Ancient Greeks, imagining either towering heroes or smaller-than-modern people.

Archaic humans living in the Levant around 120,000 years ago were highly selective hunters who carefully targeted prime-aged female wild cattle, rather than engaging in the mass hunting events that ...

Learn which engineering branch is known as the oldest engineering discipline. Learn about its history, its significance, the ...

The humble plant that grows in the Nile had a huge impact on the written word in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome and thereby on the cultures of the rest of the world. A small museum in Cairo shows how ...

Less than a century after it was rediscovered, National Geographic's correspondent explored the ruins of Petra and found its ...