Archaeologists have unearthed a remarkable collection of 5,000-year-old skeleton masks and skull cups crafted from human ...

Chewing gum has been around for thousands of years. These are some of the oldest known chewing gums in human history.

For decades, small grooves on ancient human teeth were thought to be evidence of deliberate tool use – people cleaning their teeth with sticks or fibers, or easing gum pain with makeshift “toothpicks” ...

Discovered in modern-day Turkey at the Karahantepe site, it could be the first-ever carved depiction of a human face.

Along Turkey’s northwestern shoreline, where the Aegean Sea meets the olive-covered ridges of Anatolia, lies a quiet district ...

Researchers used sophisticated scanning and digital reconstruction techniques to determine the original shape of the skull, ...

A variety of subway-dwelling mosquito seems like a modern artifact. But genomic analysis reveals the insect got its evolutionary start millennia ago.

Researchers at a Harvard Medical School laboratory are uncertain how they will continue supporting a large public genetic database after its primary source of funding expired last month.

Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, pathogen DNA has uncovered a pivotal disease "turning point" that happened 6,500 ...

"At the side wall of a stone box-shaped object, we came across, to our astonishment, a stone slab with carved features of a human face. It's an idol figure, preserved in its original context," Dr.

New research has uncovered the ancient origins of an urban mosquito species, Culex pipiens form molestus, also known as the ...

As you exit the Tube station, the bustling Camden High Street mirrors the lively Roman market you will explore with your ...